The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
Ibrahim Nasrallah / Pardes
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, on the shores of the Sea of Tiberias, between the Galilee Mountains and Marj Ibn Amer, a young man from the common people began his ambitious life's work: liberating his country to independence and establishing an Arab state on the soil of Palestine. It was the greatest dream imaginable in those days, and the man who made it come true was called Daher al-Umar al-Zidani (1689-1775). To do this, he was required to challenge the greatest power in the world at the time: the Ottoman Empire, whose rule extended over three continents.
"The Lanterns of the King of Galilee" is a broad historical novel by the prolific Palestinian-Jordanian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah. It is one of the works in the series "Al-Malha al-Falistiniya" ("The Palestinian Comedy"), Nasrallah's comprehensive literary project, which also includes the novel The Time of the White Horses, which was translated into Hebrew in 2018 and also published in the Maktoub Maktoub series.
566 pages, 98 NIS.
