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In The End of Spring, Sahar Khalifeh chronicles the struggle of the Palestinian people with a humane depiction of Palestinian resistance fighters during the 2002 siege of Yasir Arafat's official headquarters. Khalifeh's tender and moving portrayal of her protagonists delves into the consciences of the men, women and children who were involved in the actual resistance or were simply caught in the middle. These characters come alive through Khalifeh's use of Palestinian colloquial diction, as does the setting, through her measured attention to the natural surroundings in which the characters live, fight and die. The End of Spring is a riveting novel that captures the reader's attention from beginning to end. It gives a heart and a face to the Palestinian struggle.

Sahar Khalifeh has been widely acclaimed for being the first feminist Palestinian writer. Her style is lucid, economical and sensitive. Her novels include Wild Thorns, classic portrayal of life under the Israeli occupation, The Inheritance, and The Image, the Icon and the Covenant. Khalifeh was born in Nablus in 1941. She has taught at the University of Iowa and Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.
Paula Haydar is professor of Arabic at the University of Arkansas. She holds an MFA in literary translation and has translated several novels by contemporary Lebanese novelists, including Elias Khoury and Rashid al-Daif.