Borrowed Time 26th February 2020
In a village in Lebanon, an old man prepares for his final journey. But right to the end he remains defiant – against his age, his failing body and the whims of memory; against the idle life his children...
Blogs in February 2020
Confessions 26th February 2020
During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car,...
Wild Mulberries 26th February 2020
Wild Mulberries interweaves the coming of age tale of Sarah, a young woman growing up in a small Druze village in the Lebanese Shuf Mountains, and the story of this village itself, especially its role in the production of...
An Unnecessary Woman 26th February 2020
Winner of the California Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the National Book Award “Beautiful and absorbing.”–New York Times An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, which...
Dreams of Water 26th February 2020
Set during the 1980s civil war in Lebanon, ‘Dreams of Water’ is complusively readable, deceptively simple and overwhelmingly moving. ‘If you could tell me just one thing about yourself, what would it be?’ She begins, ‘I would say that...
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