Beirut Blues

BY HANAN AL-SHAYKH

Brief Description:
Asmahan writes letters - to make sense of her life and to preserve her fond memories of Beirut as it existed before civil strife destroyed it forever. Evocative, sensual, funny, and poignant, the letters - which are unlikely to ever reach their destinations - conjure up, with passion and disarming honesty, a woman's life and loves in a ravaged city, as well as her sense of being a hostage in her own country.

Anchor 1996 382 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)