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A review by tonyfrobisher
No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib
5.0
The arbitrariness of borders
A beautiful, important book of people and place and identity and displacement. A heartbreaking story of how one man's abuse of power, of populist policies to discriminate and exclude can have such deeply damaging consequences. Sama and Hadi, a love story riven by separation at the behest of the abitrariness of Trump's ban on people entering the USA from specific Muslim countries.
A novel, a created tale, yet set against a real context and sadly there will be many like Sama and Hadi.
The prose is poetic and beautifully descriptive. A treasure of a book that should never had to have been written. Humanity can transcend evil or it can plumb the depths.
In No Land to Light On, Yara Zgheib exposes both and leaves us shattered, yet still hopeful.
A beautiful, important book of people and place and identity and displacement. A heartbreaking story of how one man's abuse of power, of populist policies to discriminate and exclude can have such deeply damaging consequences. Sama and Hadi, a love story riven by separation at the behest of the abitrariness of Trump's ban on people entering the USA from specific Muslim countries.
A novel, a created tale, yet set against a real context and sadly there will be many like Sama and Hadi.
The prose is poetic and beautifully descriptive. A treasure of a book that should never had to have been written. Humanity can transcend evil or it can plumb the depths.
In No Land to Light On, Yara Zgheib exposes both and leaves us shattered, yet still hopeful.