No One Knows Their Blood Type

Shortlisted for the 2025 First Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association
>No One Knows Their Blood Type is a novel of identity, belonging, and conflicting truths--of stories, secrets, songs, rumors, and lies. On the day that her father dies, Jumana makes a discovery about her blood type. Hers could not have been inherited from her father--the father she sometimes longed for, but always despised. This extraordinary novel of Palestine centers its narrative not on the battlefield of history, but on how women live every day and the colonial context of their embodied lives. With humor and exhilarating inventiveness, it asks: why aren't questions of love, friendship, parenthood, and desire at the core of our conversations about liberty and freedom? How would this transform our ideas of resistance?

About the author

Born in 1980 in Lebanon, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is an Arabic-language Palestinian novelist, poet, and children's book author. She edited The Book of Ramallah, an anthology of short stories published by Comma Press in 2021. Her children's book A Blue Pond of Questions was translated into English and published by Penny Candy Books. An English translation of her poetry appeared from Milkweed Editions under the title You Can Be the Last Leaf, translated by Fady Joudah and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Product details

• Authors: Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
• Assisted by: Hazem Jamjoum (Translation)
• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.10.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9798989708413
• ISBN: 979-8-9897084-1-3
• Pages: 150
• Dimensions (packing): 16 x 20 x 1.2 cm
• Weight (packing): 226 g
• Subjects: FICTION / Family Life; FICTION / Literary; Fiction - General; FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / General