Time of White Horses

WINNER OF THE 2026 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ~SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONNasrallah's intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized New StatesmanSpanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948Through the lives of Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaleds grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another. Khaleds remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants feel and share the familys struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.