{"product_id":"the-thirty-names-of-night-a-novel","title":"The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel (English edition)","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"297\" data-start=\"0\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"61\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"64\" data-start=\"61\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"144\" data-start=\"64\"\u003eWinner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award, Barbara Gittings Literature Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"147\" data-start=\"144\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"191\" data-start=\"147\"\u003eChosen Best Book of the Year by \u003cem data-end=\"189\" data-start=\"181\"\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"194\" data-start=\"191\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"297\" data-start=\"194\"\u003eSelected as Most Anticipated Book of the Year by \u003cem data-end=\"259\" data-start=\"245\"\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-end=\"282\" data-start=\"261\"\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-end=\"295\" data-start=\"285\"\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"715\" data-start=\"299\"\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003cem data-end=\"354\" data-start=\"327\"\u003eThe Map of Salt and Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, a new novel about three generations of Syrian Americans marked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they hold deep within. A vivid exploration of loss, art, queer and trans communities, and the persistence of history. Tender often, always absorbing, \u003cem data-end=\"690\" data-start=\"663\"\u003eThe Thirty Names of Night\u003c\/em\u003e is an exceptional work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1393\" data-start=\"717\"\u003eFive years after a suspicious fire took the life of his mother, an ornithologist, a Syrian American trans boy who lives his identity in silence abandons the name he was born with and sets out to find a new one. As the sole caregiver of his grandmother, he spends his days confined to his apartment, avoiding the neighborhood mosque, his estranged sister, and even his best friend, who is also his longtime love. He only feels truly free when he goes out at night to paint murals on buildings in the old New York neighborhood of Little Syria, although since the ghost of his mother began visiting him every evening, he has not been able to find peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2173\" data-start=\"1395\"\u003eOne night he enters the abandoned community center and finds the worn notebook of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her life to painting birds. She mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years ago, but her diary contains evidence that both she and the protagonist’s mother encountered the same rare bird before they died. The connection between Laila Z’s past and the mother is much more intimate than he ever imagined. Even more revealing is discovering, through her story, the paths of queer and trans people within his own community who had been invisible to him until then. Realizing he has never been alone, he gathers the courage to claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic word meaning \u003cem data-end=\"2172\" data-start=\"2166\"\u003erare\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2614\" data-start=\"2175\"\u003eAs unprecedented numbers of birds begin to inexplicably gather in the skies over New York, Nadir asks his family and friends for help to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the bird his mother tried to save. Following the trail of the maternal ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his community, his family, and himself, and discovers the family that was always there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-is-only-node=\"\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-end=\"2840\" data-start=\"2616\"\u003eWith Zeyn Joukhadar’s characteristic style, \u003cem data-end=\"2727\" data-start=\"2664\"\u003efolkloric, lyrical, and dazzlingly emotionally intense\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-end=\"2756\" data-start=\"2729\"\u003eThe Thirty Names of Night\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful exploration of loss, memory, migration, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56608957694296,"sku":"LIB-TH-WA-465","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9781982121525.jpg?v=1769540057","url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/products\/the-thirty-names-of-night-a-novel","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}