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Beirut blues a novel

A memoir of war-torn Beirut. The novel is presented in the form of 10 letters, written by a woman architect to her family and friends. They describe her everyday life amid the bombing, shooting and kidnaping. By the author of The Story of Zahra.

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  • "A memoir of war-torn Beirut. The novel is presented in the form of 10 letters, written by a woman architect to her family and friends. They describe her everyday life amid the bombing, shooting and kidnaping. By the author of The Story of Zahra."
  • "A memoir of war-torn Beirut. The novel is presented in the form of 10 letters, written by a woman architect to her family and friends. They describe her everyday life amid the bombing, shooting and kidnaping. By the author of The Story of Zahra."@en
  • "Beirut blues is an intimate and engaging portrait of a woman named Asmahan who writes letters in an effort to make sense of her life and to preserve her fond memories of Beirut as it existed before civil strife destroyed it forever."@en
  • "This novel is told through letters of a woman in Beirut who chooses to suffer through the civil war rather than flee the tumult around her."
  • "With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level. The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos surrounding the heroine, Asmahan, as she futilely writes letters to her loved ones, to her friends, to Beirut, and to the war itself--letters of lament that are never to be answered except with their own resounding echoes. In Beirut Blues, Hanan al-Shaykh evokes a Beirut that has been seen by few, and that will never be seen again."@en
  • "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. As she writes, one story grows out of another. Vividly, passionately, and yet with clear-sighted humor, she records the astonishing details of her existence, her feelings about lovers past and present, her family, her reactions to the war and its violent social and political upheavals, as well as her relationships with other women who have responded to the chaos in radically different ways. What emerges is an intimate, engaging portrait and a delicately interwoven pattern of events and characters."

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Roman libanais"
  • "Epistolary fiction"@en
  • "Epistolary fiction"

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  • "Barîd Beyrouth"
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  • "Barīd Bayrūt : riwāyah"
  • "Barîd Bayrût"
  • "Barīd Bayrūt : riwāya"
  • "Barīd Bayrūt"
  • "بريد بيروت رواية"
  • "Barīd Bayrūt roman"
  • "Barīd Bayrūt : riwāya lūbnāniyya"
  • "Beirut blues a novel"@en
  • "Poste restante, Beyrouth : roman"
  • "Barīd Bayrūt [Texte imprimé] : riwāyaẗ"
  • "Barı̄d Bayrūt"
  • "Poste restante Beyrouth"
  • "Barid Bayrut = Beirut blues"
  • "بريد بيروت"
  • "Beirut Blues : a novel"
  • "Ta blues tēs Vērytou"
  • "Barîd Bayrûth"
  • "بريد بيروت : رواية"
  • "Beirut blues : roman"@da
  • "Beirut blues"@en
  • "Poste restante Beyrouth : roman"
  • "Poste restante Beyrouth roman"
  • "Beirut blues"@sv
  • "Beirut blues"
  • "Beirut blues : a novel"
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