The Lanterns of the King of Galilee by Ibrahim Nasrallah, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he mustchallenge the rule of the greatest power in the world at the time-the Ottoman Empire - while translating the ideals of human dignity, justice, and religious tolerance into concrete daily realities. In this compelling story of love and loss, victory and defeat, loyalty and betrayal, award-winning poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, author of the Arabic Booker shortlisted Time of White Horses, once again brings Palestinian history alive with a set of characters and events both real and imaginedto capture the essence of a rich and dramatic epoch in the turbulent annals of a land that has been fought over for millennia. | The Lanterns of the King of Galilee by Ibrahim Nasrallah, Paperback | Indigo Chapters