A Spring That Did Not Blossom Spring26 Printed in full color throughout

Printed in full color throughout

Laura Coffey embarks on what was meant to be a simple holiday

a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

In contemporary life

translated by the eminent writer and critic

A Spring That Did Not Blossom Spring26 Printed in full color throughoutDrawing on cultural and oral history, Nejmeh Khalil Habib's collection of five powerful short stories delves into the lives of ordinary Palestinians trying to find their way through relentless circumstances. Introducing us to characters loosely interconnected by time and place, the stories begin in 1975 with a family living in the Dbayeh refugee camp and end with the Israeli siege of West Beirut in 1982. From Mariam, a mother devoted to her only