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A novel set in the Middle East, infused with the richness and beauty of Arabic poetry. Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies, it's from the author of "Yalo". 'Vivid and powerful...' Guy Mannes-Abbott, "Independent

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Trade paperback. Adam learns the truth of his birth from Blind Mahmoud, sending him to the Palestinian city of Lydda to collect the stories of the massacre there in 1948.

Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to Beirut, a homeland still reeling from war? It was to find a man, or the ghost of a man, a man known only as Sinalcol, legendary hero of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself. In Beirut Karim will learn that peace is only ever fleeting.

A national epic of Lebanon, this is a tale of sibling rivalry, civil war and betrayal by one of the world's finest living Arabic novelists. From the author of "Yalo", it's translated by Humphrey Davies.

Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern Thousand and One Nights, a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all his sorrows, all his guilt - and of the other crimes...

Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist political circles within which he once roamed under the nom de guerre Sinalcol. By the end of his six-month stay, he has been reintroduced to the chaos of cultural, religious and political battles ...

A monumental and spellbinding saga created from true-life tales from refugee camps in Lebanon, collected over seven years. An ageing Palestinian freedom fighter lies in a coma, as his spiritual son tells him the story of their people's exile in Lebanon.