We Are All Equally Far From Love

We Are All Equally Far From Love

By Adania Shibli, Photography by Steve Woolman

A new award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of Touch.

A young woman, asked at work to write a letter to an older man, does as she is told. So begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in letters. A love affair? Maybe. Until his letters stop coming. Or... maybe the letters do not reach their intended recipient? Only the teenage Afaf, who works at the local post office, would know. Her favorite duty is to open the mail and inform her collaborator father of the contents- until she finds a mysterious set of love letters, apparently returned to their sender. In the hands of Adania Shibli, the discovery of these letters makes for a wrenching meditation on lives lived ensnared within the dictates of others.

“This novella is a challenging read; not because of Ms. Shibli’s sparing style of writing, which is strikingly different from the traditional Arabic style and quite riveting, but because of the intensely difficult insight it gives on the minutiae of the lives’ of others… We Are All Equally Far from Love is not a book to be picked up and put down… [it] demands to be read”
— New York Journal of Books

Product details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Interlink Books 2011
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781566568630