Hala Alyan Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/hala-alyan/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:13:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Hala Alyan Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/hala-alyan/ 32 32 38398750 The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/the-arsonists-city-by-hala-alyan/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/the-arsonists-city-by-hala-alyan/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2021 04:57:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15472 From the nucleus of one family, The Arsonists’ City is a novel that spins out between decades and countries. Idris and Mazna met in the 1970s. He lived in Beirut and was studying to be a doctor and she was a young actress living with her family in Damascus. Decades later they are settled in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/the-arsonists-city-by-hala-alyan/feed/ 3 15472 Salt Houses: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/salt-houses-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/05/salt-houses-a-novel/#comments Mon, 15 May 2017 07:24:08 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8716 There are plenty of times when fiction ventures into territory that is unfamiliar—in fact, that’s one of the reasons I love it so much. But Salt Houses, the debut novel from Hala Alyan is about a subject that I almost can’t wrap my mind around. The fact of having been driven out, by force or […]

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