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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408895689 | ISBN 10: 1408895684
Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it's only on their rarely snatched holidays that the friends can catch up. As they swim, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008165048 | ISBN 10: 0008165041
Nada Awar Jarrar paints an intimate portrait of modern-day Beirut where everyone has a story to tell... Journalist Hannah is deeply rooted in the city of her birth, reporting first-hand on growing unrest in the region. Her American husband Pet ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119209 | ISBN 10: 1472119207
Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller The Hakawati with an enchanting story of the life of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old, blue-haired 'unnecessary woman', living in Beirut. This is a novel to savour. Aaliya Sal ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007221943 | ISBN 10: 0007221940
This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home. Maysa returns to the house th ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697273 | ISBN 10: 1906697272
Shortlisted for the Banipal Translation Prize 2009. Sarah is on the brink of adulthood in her village in the mountains of Lebanon in the 1930's, a world itself hesitating on the verge of change. Her father the shaykh is uninterested in an ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007221981 | ISBN 10: 0007221983
The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever- changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there.The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after anot ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747569077 | ISBN 10: 074756907x
When Emilie, the matriarch of a large and unruly family of Lebanese emigrants, is on her deathbed, her granddaughter must return to Manaus and her childhood home to say goodbye. Here, in the heart of the Amazon, she becomes enveloped in memories, as ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781555974343 | ISBN 10: 1555974341
The thought of killing him never crossed my mind. I want to bury him alive. Your threats, your son's moans, our sobs, have been transformed by time into shame, a shame as penetrating as the rain that soaked the four faces fixed on your slightest move ... more
View book details£7.00 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780704381131 | ISBN 10: 0704381133
As a young Lebanese man lies dying in a makeshift mortuary in Beirut during the last days of the civil war in 1991, thoughts of his past life flood through his mind. In his disorded imagination, he writes to the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata wh ... more
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