苏珊·阿布哈瓦

1967年出生于巴勒斯坦。自幼颠沛流离于过科威特、约旦和被占领的东耶路撒冷，最后到达美国，在南卡罗来纳大学医学院取得营养学硕士学位，目前定居于美国。阿布哈瓦对西方媒体看待以巴冲突的报导感到失望，她经常向各大报纸投稿，作品常见《纽约日报》、《芝加哥论坛报》、《基督教科学箴言报》。阿布哈瓦是非政府组织“巴勒斯坦游乐场”（Playgrounds for Palestine, Inc. www.playgroundsforpalestine.org）的创办者，在被占领的巴勒斯坦领土与各个难民营为儿童修建游乐场，捍卫占领区内巴勒斯坦儿童的游戏权。

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what "The Kite Runner "did for Afghanistan. Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home. This is the Palestinian story, told as never before, through four generations of a single family. The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal, the patriarch's bright granddaughter, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal's own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades; it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, and parenthood, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Previously published in a hardcover edition with a limited run under the title "The Scar of David," this powerful novel is now available in a fully revised, newly titled paperback edition. The deep and moving humanity of "Mornings in Jenin "forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.