Book Reviews

“This intimate real-life love story brings welcome humanity to a fraught subject.”

Publisher’s Weekly

“The story of Sari and Osama is something we desperately want to hear right now, because it is possible. Even in that damned Middle East, love can yield a happy ending.”

Sacha Kester, Volkskrant (Dutch) Read full review

Upside-Down Love “is certainly a love story, but also a novel of heartbreaking relevance...in Maqluba, history isn't just a backdrop; it forcefully enters the characters' lives...The only certainty is that it will be even more difficult to pretend nothing happened after reading this book.”

Allesandra Fontana, La Lettrice Controcorrente (Italian) Read full review

“Their autobiographical love story is overwhelming, but everything seems to divide them … The result is a profound and intimate dialogue that restores the strength of a loving relationship and a unique perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, elevated to a universal message. A story of hope that reveals how an encounter between two such distant worlds is possible.”

Esterina Dana, Critica Letteraria (Italian)

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Upside-Down Love "is a silent, simple, and concise book that offers an essential reading key at this time, placing at its core the importance of dialogue, of seeing the other, of love in its most political sense."

Matilde Moro, Rivista Studio (Italian)

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“Sari Bashi’s book is a good opportunity to wake up and think, if only for a moment, about the lives of people who, geographically, live next to us but actually are living on another planet.”

Alit Karp, Haaretz (Hebrew)
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Book Reviews

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