A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what "The Kite Runner "did for Afghanistan. Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home. This is the Palestinian story, told as never before, through four generations of a single family. The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal, the patriarch's bright granddaughter, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal's own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades; it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, and parenthood, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Previously published in a hardcover edition with a limited run under the title "The Scar of David," this powerful novel is now available in a fully revised, newly titled paperback edition. The deep and moving humanity of "Mornings in Jenin "forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.

蘇珊·阿布哈瓦

1967年齣生於巴勒斯坦。自幼顛沛流離於過科威特、約旦和被占領的東耶路撒冷，最後到達美國，在南卡羅來納大學醫學院取得營養學碩士學位，目前定居於美國。阿布哈瓦對西方媒體看待以巴衝突的報導感到失望，她經常嚮各大報紙投稿，作品常見《紐約日報》、《芝加哥論壇報》、《基督教科學箴言報》。阿布哈瓦是非政府組織“巴勒斯坦遊樂場”（Playgrounds for Palestine, Inc. www.playgroundsforpalestine.org）的創辦者，在被占領的巴勒斯坦領土與各個難民營為兒童修建遊樂場，捍衛占領區內巴勒斯坦兒童的遊戲權。