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Samir El-Youssef
ISBN: 9781905559015
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Halban Publishers
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Meeting a friend after many years' separation, the narrator wonders whether the events they both lived through in Lebanon really took place. Time and distance give a sense of unreality but when the narrator and Ali meet at Heathrow Airport, after seventeen years, the past slowly begins to unfold. Like so many other Palestinians who were born in Lebanon, they had to leave in the mid…
After 17 years, the narrator and his friend, Ali, meet at Heathrow and slowly remember their past in Lebanon. Their memories are concentrated on one fatal night when they were with two other friends for the last time, before tragedy struck. But for the narrator, a personal tragedy had occurred much earlier...Both the narrator and Ali are Palestinians born in Lebanon. Like many others, they had to leave in the mid-1980s, when it became a battleground for local armies - Ali to America, the narrator to London. But this is not just a story about suffering, it is also about absurd politics and violence - about a world where tragedy and comedy co-exist. A poignant story that lingers long after one has finished it.
| ISBN | 1905559011 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781905559015
(What's this?) | | Pages | 160 | | Publisher | Halban Publishers | | Weight (grammes) | 263 | | Imprint | Halban Publishers | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 192 | | Publication date | 11 Jan 2007 | | Width (mm) | 192 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General |
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