Cultural books from Lebanon
Recommended cultural books (2)
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If you are into cultural here are some cultural books from Lebanon for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
1.
House of Stone : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid EN
Description:
Culture and institutions.
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The Illusion of Return : A Novel by Samir El-Youssef EN
Description:
The nameless narrator of this startling novella believed himself to be under no illusion: a Palestinian refugee, he had escaped the deadly tumult of Lebanon, the roving militias and endlessly complicated religious violence, by having long ago fled to London. He knew he could never go back. But then one day an old friend, who had also escaped, calls him and asks to meet at the airport on a stop-over on his way back to Lebanon. For the narrator, it summons up everything he thought he had suppressed, both the yearning to go home and the secret reason he can't. Thus the reunion with his old friend... continue