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978-1-84659-077-1
Fiction
February 2010

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• Book Info
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• Reviews


About the Author
Of English and Palestinian parentage, Mischa Hiller was born in Hull in 1962 and grew up in Durham, London, Beirut, and Dar El-Salaam. He was a semifinalist in the 2007 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and winner of the 2009 European Independent Film Festival script competition for his adaptation of Sabra Zoo. He lives in Cambridge. Sabra Zoo is his first novel.
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Sabra Zoo

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"A moving and haunting novel, a narrative for our tormented times."
Fergal Keane


It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege.

It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra refugee camp by day, getting stoned with them at night, and working undercover for the PLO. Hoping to get closer to Eli, a Norwegian physiotherapist, he helps her treat Youssef, a camp orphan disabled by a cluster bomb. An unexpected friendship develops between the three and things begin to look up …

But events take a nasty turn when the president-elect is assassinated. The Israeli army enters Beirut and surrounds the camp, with Eli and Youssef trapped inside. Are rumours of a massacre in the camp true? Will Ivan be able to salvage anything from the chaos?

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‘Stunning defiant debut.’ Guardian ‘Vividly realised … This darkly humorous, often harrowing novel demonstrates that in the chaos of conflict there are no easy or obvious decisions.’ **** Metro
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