A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful Zadie Smith_SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020__SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019_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: lo ...