{"id":22540,"date":"2025-01-07T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/?p=22540"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:49:56","slug":"enter-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/enter-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vintage, 2024
\n323 p.
\nISBN 978-1-5299-1999-8<\/p>\n

Post hau ingelesez dago.<\/p>\n

Donostia Book Club<\/strong> starts 2025 meetings on January, 13<\/strong>th with a very ambitious novel: Enter Ghost<\/a><\/em> by a British-Palestinian author, Isabella Hammad<\/strong>. We follow the protagonist, Sonia from London and her work as a theater actress to her homeland. She goes to visit her sister, Haneen in Haifa. Officially, it’s to have a long needed vacation break, but in reality Sonia is re-evaluating her whole life. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The narration constantly skips back and forward in time to find out more about the sisters’ relationship, Sonia’s failed marriage, miscarriage, unsuccesful affair with a theater director and the wayeach of the sisters is feeling about Palestine.<\/p>\n

The book is full of unresolved conflincts, unsaid words, ghosts and haunting on a personal, family and country level. All that leads Sonia to join a production of Hamlet on the West Bank. Knowing the play is definitely enriching the way we read Enter Ghost<\/em>, but it is possible to understand it without any knowledge about Shakespeare too.<\/p>\n

The novel was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2024 and praised by authors such as Monica Ali. The Prize’s website provides a reading guide with some questions to discuss:<\/p>\n

How do you think Hamlet is relevant to Sonia\u2019s story, to the other characters in the book, and to the wider Israel-Palestine context? How well does it work as a metaphor or framing device? Does theatre provide a way for people to understand politic,s and the world around them, better? In what way, if so?<\/p>\n

How did you feel about the sections of the book where Hammad represents the dialogue and action of the story as if it was a play? How did this affect your reading experience?<\/p>\n

At one stage, Sonia describes Mariam as possessing a, \u2018straightforward, repugnant, magnetic light<\/em>\u2019; how does Sonia feel about Mariam, and how would you describe their relationship?<\/p>\n

Is Sonia and Hannan\u2019s relationship a typical sibling dynamic? Did it feel authentic to you?<\/p>\n

What does Hammad seem to be saying about men and masculinity with her representations of the male actors in Mariam\u2019s production of Hamlet?<\/p>\n

(Source: https:\/\/womensprize.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Enter-Ghost_reading_guide.pdf<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vintage, 2024 323 p. ISBN 978-1-5299-1999-8 Post hau ingelesez dago. Donostia Book Club starts 2025 meetings on January, 13th with a very ambitious novel: Enter Ghost by a British-Palestinian author, Isabella Hammad. We follow the protagonist, Sonia from London and her work as a theater actress to her homeland. She goes to visit her sister, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eleberria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22540"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23122,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540\/revisions\/23122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}