Books set in Lebanon (26)


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1.

A Game for Swallows : To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.

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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine EN

Rating: 5 (2 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.

3.

An Unsafe Haven by Nada A. Jarrar EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
'Captivating ...There's a breadth of humanity in An Unsafe Haven which is very moving. I loved the sense of Lebanon and of what is unique and precious about the Arab world' Helen Dunmore Hannah has deep roots in her hometown of Beirut, where she lives with her American husband, Peter. Just when they thought they had gotten used to the upheavals in Lebanon, the war in neighbouring Syria enters its fifth year, and the region's increasingly fragile state throws their daily lives into chaos. A chance meeting with a Syrian woman and her son in a busy street forces Hannah to face the worsening refug... continue

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Beaufort by Ron Leshem EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
The diary of Liraz Liberti, a twenty-one-year-old member of an Israeli commando team stationed at Beaufort, a Crusader fort in southern Lebanon, records the experiences of the soldiers as they deal with near-constant bombardment by Hezbollah.

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Beirut by Samir Kassir EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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.


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Brieven in de nacht by Hoda Barakat NL

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
Sombere brieven, zonder adres of afzender, geschreven door mensen die gevlucht of verbannen zijn aan een geliefd iemand.


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De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage EN

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Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
In this explosive, captivating portrait of life in a war zone, two young men must choose their futures: to stay in the war-torn Beirut and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known.