Parisian

A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful'' Zadie Smith

Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor''s daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, ...