Winner of the 2007 H‚lŠne du Coudray Undergraduate Novel Prize. In the first years of this century, three young people - Anne-Marie, David and Mohammed - try to find their place in a changed world of identity politics, religion, conflict and betrayal. Set against the background first of student life and then Palestine, Israel, and the Balkans, this beautifully written, original and powerful debut novel draws on the poetry of the Song of Songs and the Persian poet Rumi, and asks searching questions about the nature of betrayal, loyalty, and identity, both in our personal lives and in today's troubled world.
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Heather McRobie (b. 1985) is a British-Australian novelist and journalist. Her first novel, Psalm 119, was published shortly after she graduated and won the Helene du Coudray prize when she was 23 years old. Since then she has worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian, New Statesman, Foreign Policy, Globe and Mail and others, living and working in Jordan, Bosnia, Germany, Canada and Egypt. Her first non-fiction book, Literary Freedom, was published in 2013. She is completing a PhD on the 2011 Egyptian revolution at Oxford University and works as an editor at openDemocracy.
I began Psalm 119 late one night, and my first realisation was that I was no longer tired; my second was that I would not be going to bed until the novel was good and ready to let me go.' -- Tobias Hill, Prize Judge 'An inborn literary skill, a deftness of language, a roving and enquiring mind A- and funny with it. If she keeps it up she'll take her place among the best in the land.' -- Fay Weldon, Prize Judge
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