L’Eden all’alba. Meeting with the author Karim Kattan

How can one love you in this city so fickle, so prone to anger, in this city obsessed with a god, a city that leaves me no space to worship you instead of him?

A new literary event leading up to the next Festival edition: on May 11th at 6:30 PM, Palestinian author Karim Kattan will present and discuss his latest novel, L’Eden all’alba (Eden at Dawn), at the ground floor of Il Cassero LGBTQIA+ Center.

L’Eden all’alba is a magical and sensual novel that turns love into an act of resistance, a way to survive in a wounded world still searching for its dawn. During a scorching summer in Jerusalem, in Aunt Fátima’s house, Gabriel and Isaac meet by chance, and something sparks between them instantly. After that first fleeting encounter, they seek each other out, find one another again, and their love grows, pushing them to search for new horizons beyond checkpoints and invisible walls. Their journey moves across the landscapes of Palestine—from Jerusalem to Jericho, all the way to Solomon’s Pools—places suspended between reality, dream, and myth.

Karim Kattan weaves a sweeping love story together with the memory of places, transforming the geography of Palestine into a visionary landscape where eroticism and poetry become acts of resistance.

The author will be in conversation with Mauro Meneghelli.