Enter Ghost

Outstanding. Next-level. Aesthetically, intellectually, emotionally and culturally satisfying... Isabella Hammad is incapable of striking a false note. She immerses her heroine in volatile territory with the accuracy, compassion and coolness of a surgical knife sliding into a diseased body. The result is a stunning beauty - an eye-opening, uplifting novel that grants its vulnerable cast and their endeavors a rare and graceful dignity.

Leila Aboulela, author of Minaret

A soul-stirring and dramatic tale of a Palestinian family's exile and reconciliation... The layered text, rich in languages and literary references, dives deep into Sonia's consciousness, illustrating her hopes for what art can accomplish. This deeply human work will stay with readers.

Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review*

Beautifully written, poignant yet forceful, thoughtful and thought provoking, but above all challenging the reader to respond to the question facing the characters in the novel: how to live under occupation while preserving your dignity and humanity? Hammad answers this question through taking us into the hearts and minds of the characters in the novel and through that into the heart and mind of Palestine.

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Enter Ghost is a masterful, deeply convincing portrait of the all-too-real consequences of political theater - in both senses. A moving and important novel that presses upon the urgent question of how we ought to live in the midst of the rubble (and ongoing chaos) of political crisis.

Namwali Serpell, author of The Old Drift

A powerful new novel... Hammad is a pretty flawless writer.

The Times

A richly layered novel... Hammad takes her time, writing with an elegant, confident poise and accumulation of detail this is refreshingly unfashionable.

Observer

Feels completely different to anything else being written right now in English, a heartfelt meditation on the relationship between art and politics.

Sunday Times

Powerful... Enter Ghost is a remarkable work by a novelist who writes about Palestinians with the same love and exasperation that one might feel towards one's family.

Literary Review

A magnificent, deeply imagined story... A thought-provoking, engrossing story about the connections to be found in art, politics and family life.

Sunday Times

A stirring novel and a tribute to those Palestinians who have attempted, and attempt, to make art despite the forces ranged against them.

Times Literary Supplement

Enter Ghost retells Hamlet for now, dropping its readers deep into the contemporary tensions of the West Bank, asking crucial and layered questions... Hammad is a calm and vital storyteller, a writer of real rhythmic grace.

Ali Smith, author of Autumn

Compelling... The blend of personal and political feels remarkably fresh.

Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

A thought-provoking and highly topical story about the complex connections to be found in art, politics and family life.

Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

There could hardly be a more urgent time to understand the inner lives of Palestinians, which are here depicted with poignance and grace.

Observer, *Books of the Year*

A mature, thought-provoking novel quite unlike any other fiction being written

The Times

Artful, political, delicate and bold… an extraordinary interknitting of individual experience and the wider context

Han Smith, Guardian

A gifted novelist... Enter Ghost is a moving and unforgettable book

SALLY ROONEY