<p>Dramatizes modern life in Christian East Beirut</p>

Little Mountain (Emergent Literature) (English and Arabic Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Elias Khoury

Literary

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Beirut in the 1930s: a young woman has the gift of seeing the past in her dreams, and she can also predict the future. Over the course of three nights, Milia recalls her love affair with Mansour, between Beirut and Nazareth, and dreams of episodes in the lives of her family: of a grandmother who regains her virginity after the birth of her son; of the bizarre death of an uncle, who accidentally hangs himself by a church-bell rope; of her relationship with her mother. Dreams are a way to escape all forms of oppression, whether from family, religion or politics; Milia's visions are of a kind of Garden of Eden, of frangipani trees and orange blossom, and yet she foretells the political and social transformations to come: Jewish immigration to Palestine, the influence of foreign Christian missions and the Westernization of morality. As Though She Were Sleeping is a reminder of what life once was in the Middle East; Elias Khoury has again crafted a compelling and many-layered narrative of great sensuality.

As Though She Were Sleeping

MacLehose Press

Quercus

Contemporary

<p>This Mosaic portrayal of its author's native Lebanon besieged by civil war . . . expands into a generalized examination of chaos and despair suffered by families everywhere . . . . -Kirkus Reviews</p>

The Kingdom of Strangers

Paula Haydar

University of Arkansas Press

Yalo

Maclehose Press Quercus

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