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Recommended books (13)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Lebanon. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

1.
An Unnecessary Woman

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine EN

Rating: 4     41 Votes
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
An obsessive introvert in Beirut, eschewed by her family and neighbors for her divorced status and lack of religious reverence, quietly translates favorite books into Arabic while struggling with her aging body until an unthinkable disaster threatens what little life remains to her. By the best-selling author of The Hakawati. 20,000 first printing.
Recommended: 20 Dec 2022

2.
Balthasar's Odyssey

Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Genre
Recommended: 06 Mar 2023

3.
Beirut

Beirut by Samir Kassir EN

Rating: 5     3 Votes
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.
Recommended: 06 Jan 2023

4.
Der Prophet. Der Narr. Der Wanderer

Der Prophet. Der Narr. Der Wanderer by Khalīl Ǧibrān DE

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
Die Parabeln und Gleichnisse des libanesischen Dichterphilosophen Khalil Gibran erzählen in betörend schlichter Sprache von der menschlichen Suche nach Wahrheit und Aufrichtigkeit, berichten von Liebe und Freundschaft und geben einsichtsvolle Antworten auf die existentiellen Fragen des Lebens. Dieser Band versammelt Gibrans berühmteste Werke Der Prophet, Der Narr und Der Wanderer in neuer Übersetzung.
Genre
Recommended: 17 Apr 2023

5.

House of Stone : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid EN

Rating: 4     5 Votes
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
A journalist traces the story of his family's effort to rebuild an ancestral home in Lebanon amid political strife and how the work enabled a greater understanding of the emotions behind Middle East turbulence.

6.
J'ai tué Schéhérazade

J'ai tué Schéhérazade by Joumana Haddad FR

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Genre
Recommended: 25 Jan 2023

7.
Night

Night by Etel Adnan EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
A luminescent new book by one of our leading innovative writers
Genre Poetry
Recommended: 30 Apr 2023

8.
No Land to Light On

No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Genre
Tags: Set in SYRIA
Recommended: 30 Mar 2023

9.

Samarkand : A Novel by Amin Maalouf EN

Rating: 4     9 Votes
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as a poet and gives him a blank book in which to inscribe his verses. Thus the head of a great poet is saved and the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam is born. The threads of his life become interwoven with the designs of the vizier, Nizam al Mulk, and of Hassan S... continue

10.
The Broken Wings

The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity, Gibran describes his passion as a youth for Selma Karamy, the girl of Beirut who first unfolded to him the secrets of love. But it is a love that is doomed by a social convention which forces Selma into marriage with another man. Portraying the happiness and infinite sorrow of his relationship with Selma, Gibran at the same time probes the spiritual meaning of human existence with profound compassion.
Recommended: 16 Apr 2023


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