| Author: | Abbas El-Zein | ISBN: | 9780992434779 |
| Publisher: | Ligature | Publication: | April 22, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Ligature finest | Language: | English |
| Author: | Abbas El-Zein |
| ISBN: | 9780992434779 |
| Publisher: | Ligature |
| Publication: | April 22, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Ligature finest |
| Language: | English |
Beirut. One Sunday in 1975: the day war took the city by surprise. Seven o’clock in the morning. Three teenagers gazed in silence at the world around them.
Kareem Kader leads two lives – studying music by day and getting high on drugs and the thrill of battle at night. Kareem is in love with his fellow student Raawya Neayme, whose capacity for risk-taking is only rivalled by the single-mindedness with which she plans her escape from the influence of her powerful father. Meanwhile, Tony Mirshid, a quiet, young carpenter from the countryside, and an excellent marksman by all accounts, is given a spot on one of the tallest buildings in Beirut, the city in his sights.
As the paths of these three cross and their lives become intertwined, their story will reach a climax in the city centre, once thriving, now a scarred battleground.
In this beautiful, haunting novel, rules are made and remade, and everyone is at once victim and perpetrator, helping to keep their landscapes of violence alive.
Beirut. One Sunday in 1975: the day war took the city by surprise. Seven o’clock in the morning. Three teenagers gazed in silence at the world around them.
Kareem Kader leads two lives – studying music by day and getting high on drugs and the thrill of battle at night. Kareem is in love with his fellow student Raawya Neayme, whose capacity for risk-taking is only rivalled by the single-mindedness with which she plans her escape from the influence of her powerful father. Meanwhile, Tony Mirshid, a quiet, young carpenter from the countryside, and an excellent marksman by all accounts, is given a spot on one of the tallest buildings in Beirut, the city in his sights.
As the paths of these three cross and their lives become intertwined, their story will reach a climax in the city centre, once thriving, now a scarred battleground.
In this beautiful, haunting novel, rules are made and remade, and everyone is at once victim and perpetrator, helping to keep their landscapes of violence alive.
