"A paean to unabashed, unbridled love." --Khaled Hosseini, New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner
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"Robbins' melodic novel is story of war, family, language, but above all, a paean to unabashed, unbridled love. Told in quiet but elegant prose, each thump of this melodic novel's heart (and what an enormous, rousing heart it is) attests to the timeless and life-giving power of love." -Khaled Hosseini, New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner
"A stunning first novel on love, loss and language." -The Chicago Tribune "A beautifully crafted story...Her poetic style plunges the reader into the scene, her tone reminiscent of Camus...A Word for Love made this reader cry from feeling the transformative, redemptive power of fiction. This profoundly satisfying novel ventures to the very heart of romance and its literary origins in the seventh-century lyric poetry of the Arabian desert." -Washington Independent Review of Books "Emily Robbins has written a lyrical story about love in nearly all of its manifestations." -New York Journal of Books "[An] extraordinary debut." --Bustle "Deeply affecting ... Here, Syria is more than a war-torn nation--it's a site of longing, love, and intellectual rigor." --Hazlitt "The shiny gold cover and title caught my eye, but I stayed for the premise. A college student travels to the Middle East to study a famed text of doomed love. Her fascination with language may be what drew her to the country, but it's the political turmoil and the people she meets that really serves to educate her." -BookRiot "With lyrical precision and sharp psychology, A Word for Love asks us to consider the ways one household might become a world, one love might become a universe." -Rebecca Makkai, author of Music for Wartime "Transforms the most impossibly tangled and de-humanizing aspects of the world we live in now into prose so clear and clean you could drink it." -Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex and The Thin PlaceEmily Robbins has lived and worked across the Middle East and North Africa. From 2007 to 2008, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Syria, where she studied religion and language with a women's mosque movement and lived with the family of a leading intellectual. In 2016 she received a second Fulbright, to study in Jordan. She now lives in Oslo.
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