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blazes a trail across some of the defining features of the twentieth century – revolution

each breath has been a reminder that I survived--and my dad didn't

yet destabilizes the environment and fosters new diseases

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The Palace on the Higher Hill winter blazes a trail across someFaysal receives a mysterious letter about the death of aunt he cant remember. Leaving his lover and his life in Europe behind, he returns to the village of his birth in Palestine and to his familys extraordinary, deserted house, the palace on the higher hill. With a backdrop of violence and the permanent threat from settlers, Faysal wanders the once lavish rooms as characters from the past return to shed light on his family story and on the story of