Meet Palestinian author Karim Kattan as he delves into his haunting novel of exile, memory, homecoming, and loss, The Palace on the Higher Hill. Originally published in French in 2021, the novel follows Faysal’s return to his family’s abandoned home in Palestine, where he confronts the ghosts of both personal and political pasts. Winner of the 2021 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, his novel offers an intimate, politically charged portrait of displacement, echoing One Hundred Years of Solitude and Brideshead Revisited.

He will be in conversation with Will Forrester, Head of Literature Programmes at English PEN.

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