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Red Flour
Paperback
Series: Nonaligned
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781945335754
Publisher: Common Notions
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A Palestinian novel about witnessing a massacre, and worse still, surviving it.
Resurrected in Heaven, a bewildered survivor of a massacre flashes back to harrowing events unfolding in an unnamed besieged town, a camp ravished by hunger and swollen with displaced people and starving children, where a hopeful euphoria building at a breadline culminates in a tragedy and bleak dissolution. Centered on the theme of hunger, the essence of bread, and the magic of flour in a place on the brink of mass starvation, Red Flour is essentially a love story that takes place in a breadline. But can love blossom in a place ravished by hunger?
Languishing under an unending siege and constant bombardment, the camp soon dwindles into a necropolis where bone-thin children wither away in the arms of hapless parents, dying a most agonizing death, before being loaded hurriedly into waiting wagons and buried in haste. And beyond starvation a flour massacre unfolds, leading to the protagonist's cry: Even our bread is massacred, murdered before it's leavened.
This is a compelling story of death and survival, of bread and roses, in a world in which humanity is at a brink.
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