Der Fremde aus Paris

Montpellier, at the beginning of the First World War: When the young Palestinian Midhat disembarks from a steamer from Alexandria, it is his departure into a bright future. He eagerly throws himself into his medical studies, soaks up French culture, and falls in love with the emancipated Jeannette. But in the bourgeois salons startled by the war, Midhat remains a stranger - and must learn how fragile everything is: friends become enemies, love becomes betrayal. He flees into the excessive hustle and bustle of Paris and from there back to the strict paternal care in Palestine. But his homeland has also become a powder keg in the struggle for independence...Isabella Hammad tells the story of a border crosser and rootless man with virtuosity. The novel of a love between cultures and the epic of a turning point in time - of classical brilliance and unheard-of topicality.