Nasrallah Ibrahim Time of White Horses

<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION</strong><br><strong>FINALIST FOR THE 2026 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE</strong><strong><br><br>"Nasrallah''s intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized "—<em>New Statesman</em></strong><br><br><strong>Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948</strong><br><br>Through the lives of Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled’s grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another. Khaled’s remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants feel and share the family’s struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.</p>