Books set in Lebanon (10)
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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine EN
LebanonDescription:
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.
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Beirut by Samir Kassir EN
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 Hudā Barakāt NL
Description:
Sombere brieven, zonder adres of afzender, geschreven door mensen die gevlucht of verbannen zijn aan een geliefd iemand.
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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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I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached EN
Description:
Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and n outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.
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Description:
A master of contemporary Arabic fiction returns to English translation with a cunningly layered dark comedy about the powers and limits of creativity in a war zone.
Palestine8.
The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran EN
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.
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The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine EN
Description:
“Here is absolute beauty. One of the finest novels I’ve read in years.” —Junot Diaz An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama’s grandfather was a hakawati, or storyte... continue
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Yalo by Elias Khoury ES
Description:
«Yalo no lo entendió, y ese fue su pecado capital. Se agarró a las cuerdas de una voz quebrada y siguió jugando con una mujer rota.». Elias Khoury nos sumerge en un universo de malentendidos brutales, amor y alienación, autodescubrimiento y luminosa trascendencia. En el centro del torbellino, Yalo: un joven que vaga entre mundos como un perro callejero en las calles de Beirut durante la guerra civil libanesa. Vive con su madre y entra en contacto con un grupo peligroso cuyas arriesgadas aventuras le parecen un juego. Sin embargo, el juego se convierte en una amenazante realidad cuando le acusa... continue