<DIV><p><B>Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010.</B></p><p>"Will take you to the height of reading pleasure."?Elias Khoury</p><p>Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to reconnecting with the people and places he once left behind.</p><p>Boarding the flight from London, Walid's life intersects with that of Dana, an Israeli actress, on her way back to Tel Aviv.</p><p>As the night sky hurtles past, what each confides and conceals will expose the chasm between them in the land they both call home.</p><p>Born in Palestine in 1945, <B>Raba'i al-Madhoun</B> is one of the Arab world's rising literary stars.</p></DIV>