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The Broken Mirrors : Sinalcol

The Broken Mirrors : Sinalcol

Author(s): Elias Khoury

Location(s): Beirut

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Late 1900s

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Why did he return to Beirut?

Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from war?

It was not to answer his brother Naseem’s call and raise a hospital out the ashes; it was not to pursue past sweethearts and father the son his wife never gave him.

It was to find a man, or the ghost of a man, a man known only as Sinalcol, legendary hero of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself.

In Beirut Karim will confront the fate of old comrades, the truth about his father’s death and a brother who is all but a twin in appearance but shares nothing of his soul.

And he will learn that peace is only ever fleeting in a war without end.

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The Broken Mirrors is a complex and complicated novel set in Beirut. It explores the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to1990 through the eyes of one family. Karim, a doctor, married and living in...

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