Prisoner of Love (Revised) A novel about deep friendships

A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism

leaves heartache in his wake

we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint

In this thought-provoking book

Prisoner of Love (Revised) A novel about deep friendshipsStarting in 1970, Jean Genet petty thief, prostitute, modernist master spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time