- Lebanon Civil War, 1975-1990, Fiction, History, Fiction, general
In the Christian part of Beirut, torn by civil war, two befriended young men make a different choice about whether to flee or join the fight.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Rawi Hage
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West, Sharikat al-Maṭbūʻāt lil-Tawzīʻ wa-al-Nashr, W F Howes
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, French, Dutch, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9780887848131
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Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Canada. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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