Sep 30, 2010 Beirut Nightmares [Ghada Samman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Beirut Nightmares is set at the height of the Lebanese Civil War. The narrator, trapped in her apartment for two weeks by street battles and sniper fire. The richness of Samman's style and the power of her images manages to reach the reader, and give you.
If you want to include poetry, there is also Etel Adnan’s The Arab Apocalypse. Some other Hassan Daoud novels have also been translated into English, including the House of Mathilde, probably his best known work; you have also left out Rashid Ad-Daif’s work, some of which have been translated into English, including the wonderful Passage to Dusk translated by Nirvana Tanoukhi. Another book that fits into the category of Books about pre-war Beirut but that foreshadow the war include Andree Chedid Return to Beirut, which is a bit of classic; Andree Chedid can be considered equally Egyptian and French; Another fabulous book written in English is the Bullet Collection by Patricia Safarian Ward, which also talks about the Lebanese Civil War There is another Elias Khoury novel called City Gates which you didn’t include (probably for a good reason, it’s a bit awful). I am sure there are many more that I missed.
You absolutely should read the Rock of Tanios not because it won the prize, but because it’s gripping and explains a lot about Maalouf’s ambivalent relationship with Lebanon. I remember my sister (who doesn’t even like to read) fighting over this bookAnd I can’t recommend The Bullet Collection enough as it is one of the best books written about the Civil War and it’s so sad. Obrazec zapolneniya poyasniteljnoj zapiski k balansu kazennogo uchrezhdeniya.
Another author who writes in English about Lebanon is Tony Hanania (I’m pretty sure he’s Lebanese); his books are Unreal City, Homesickness. When I first read Rawi Hage’s DeNiro’s game, it reminded me of Unreal City in that the main character is someone who is unlikeable and was complicit in the war not just an innocent victim (although the language is more sophisticated than Hage’s). No wonder I forgot about this book, it’s quite dark and your faith in humanity is somewhat shaken when you read it. There are all these books I keep forgetting and then remember.
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