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No One Asks Your Name: Between Harbors and Memory
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 25 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nasir Gharib is a professor of water in Alexandria: late fifties, divorced, admired, and quietly finished with almost everything. He can taste the salinity of the sea outside his window before he has finished his first coffee. For most of his life he has believed that his father, a fisherman from the coast of Palestine, was lost when Nasir was a boy, and that there was nothing left to find.
Then, over a paper cup at a conference, a Norwegian colleague mentions a Palestinian fisherman his family once knew, far above the Arctic Circle.
A small coastal museum holds five logbooks: four hundred pages of dates, winds, catches and debts, and not a single sentence about a feeling. From them Nasir plots a line across the Mediterranean and follows it, from Beirut and Shatila to Salloum, Sfax and Oran; then Mazara, Marsaxlokk, Sète, Barbate and Grândola; and north into the cold, to Esbjerg, Ålesund, Vard and Troms . In each small port he meets what one man left behind: a debt, a friendship, a shared meal, a door that would not open, and sometimes the sons and daughters of the people who knew him.
No One Asks Your Name is a quiet, traditional novel about fathers and sons, exile and the sea, love that stopped and never restarted, and two men who each mourned the other for a lifetime.
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