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Author: Rabee Jaber ,
Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.148kg
ISBN: 9780811220675
ISBN 10: 0811220672
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 April 2016
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A slim, powerful volume, now in deft translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid ... [Jaber] is a major force in Arabic literature. -- M. Lynx-Qualey - The Chicago Tribune This elegy for a lost Beirut, past and future, this novel was carrying me to a place I had never been before. -- Alan Cheuse - NPR Jaber shares a delight in stories that defy conventional ideas about identity and the relations between East and West. -- The New York Review of Books
A book as unique as its subject matter - messy, incomplete, at times unreliable, yet as haunting and alluring as memories themselves. -- Justin Stephani - Electric Literature This elegy for a lost Beirut, past and future, this novel was carrying me to a place I had never been before. -- Alan Cheuse - NPR A slim, powerful volume, now in deft translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid ... [Jaber] is a major force in Arabic literature. -- M. Lynx-Qualey - The Chicago Tribune Clever and illuminating. -- Malcolm Forbes - The National Jaber shares a delight in stories that defy conventional ideas about identity and the relations between East and West. -- The New York Review of Books Jaber is interested in what it means to live in and with fear, not for one season but for a whole generation, two generations, three. He's interested in the bones of Beirut, a city that has had to rebuild itself repeatedly after being razed in war in 140 B.C., then devastated by the earthquake of 551, then again during the civil war, a city whose name derives from the Canaanite be'erot - wells - the water table that still sustains it. He's interested in what lies beneath, what nourishes us without our knowing. -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times Book Review [An] unflinching thriller about trauma and forgiveness, set in the chaos of the Lebanese Civil War. -- Jeva Lange - The Week Abu-Zeid has made Rabee Jaber's Beirut part of our imaginary landscape and added him to our constellation of fiction writers. -- Erik Noonan - World Literature Today
This elegy for a lost Beirut, past and future, this novel was carrying me to a place I had never been before. -- Alan Cheuse - NPR Jaber shares a delight in stories that defy conventional ideas about identity and the relations between East and West. -- The New York Review of Books
Author Information
The author of eighteen novels, the Lebanese writer Rabee Jaber was born in Beirut in 1972. He is the editor of Afaaq, the weekly cultural supplement of Al-Hayat, the daily pan-Arab newspaper. Kareem James Abu-Zeid is an award-winning translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world, including Najwan Darwish, Tarek Eltayeb, and Dunya Mikhail.
