TIME OF WHITE HORSES

Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, Time of White Horses is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948.

Through the lives of Hajj Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled's grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another. Khaled's remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants feel and share the family's struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.

Ibrahim Nasrallah is considered one of the most influential voices of his generation. He was raised in a Palestinian refugee camp and has written fourteen novels.

Shortlisted for the Arab Booker