The Necklace of Seven Souls
Hooda Shawa author Sawad Hussain translator Nour Jaljuli translator Nada Esmaeel illustrator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Restless Books
Publishing:15th Oct '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 15th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Two Palestinian teenagers discover secrets that change all they thought they knew about their family histories—and their own futures.
Farida is a talented young painter who recreates European masterpieces under the patronizing eye of a Parisian art dealer. Mazen just arrived in France to hunt for a lost family heirloom. When the two meet during a chance encounter at the Louvre, they discover that both their grandmothers fled Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. Drawn to one another, Mazen and Farida begin to piece together their past, but a shadowy ring of art forgers has other plans for Farida. Will she discover the truth before it’s too late?
Exploring what it means to live in diaspora, Hooda Shawa’s US debut moves from Paris to Haifa, from Aleppo to Tangier, conjuring the jewel tones of the Mediterranean and the bittersweet taste of memory.
“A beautifully interwoven story about loss and making, about history and color, about the tragedy and genius of world-building in the aftermath of great rupture. I was so heartened, so moved, by The Necklace of Seven Souls.”
— Safia Elhillo, author of Bright Red Fruit and Home Is Not a Country
"Provides a space of hope and optimism for the continuity of young generations and their ability to move forward, demolish stereotypes, break down barriers, and find a way in which they have features and an identity that resemble them."
— Faten Al-Jamal and Mohamed Al-Zaqzouq, Ultra Sawt
ISBN: 9781632064073
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
176 pages