Enter Ghost

A gifted novelist... Enter Ghost is a moving and unforgettable book

A gifted novelist... Enter Ghost is a moving and unforgettable book

Feels completely different to anything else being written right now in English , a heartfelt meditation on the relationship between art and politics.

Enter Ghost retells Hamlet for now, dropping its readers deep into the contemporary tensions of the West Bank, asking crucial and layered questions... Hammad is a calm and vital storyteller, a writer of real rhythmic grace.

A powerful new novel... Hammad is a pretty flawless writer.

Beautifully written, poignant yet forceful, thoughtful and thought provoking, but above all challenging the reader to respond to the question facing the characters in the novel: how to live under occupation while preserving your dignity and humanity? Hammad answers this question through taking us into the hearts and minds of the characters in the novel and through that into the heart and mind of Palestine.

A thought-provoking and highly topical story about the complex connections to be found in art, politics and family life.

Enter Ghost is a masterful, deeply convincing portrait of the all-too-real consequences of political theater - in both senses. A moving and important novel that presses upon the urgent question of how we ought to live in the midst of the rubble (and ongoing chaos) of political crisis.

A magnificent, deeply imagined story ... A thought-provoking, engrossing story about the connections to be found in art, politics and family life.

Outstanding. Next-level. Aesthetically, intellectually, emotionally and culturally satisfying... Isabella Hammad is incapable of striking a false note . She immerses her heroine in volatile territory with the accuracy, compassion and coolness of a surgical knife sliding into a diseased body. The result is a stunning beauty - an eye-opening, uplifting novel that grants its vulnerable cast and their endeavors a rare and graceful dignity.

There could hardly be a more urgent time to understand the inner lives of Palestinians, which are here depicted with poignance and grace.

Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost . She has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and has been awarded the RSL Encore Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Palestine Book Award and a Betty Trask Award. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation. In 2023, she was included as one of Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists.