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Description for Limbo Beirut
Paperback. Translator(s): Stanton, Anna Ziajka. Series: Emerging Voices from the Middle East. Num Pages: 220 pages, 85 b&w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
In Hilal Chouman's Limbo Beirut, a gay artist, a struggling novelist, a pregnant woman, a disabled engineering student, a former militia member, and a medical intern all take turns narrating the violent events of May 2008, when Hezbollah militants and Sunni fighters clashed in the streets of Beirut. For most of these young men and women, the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) is but a vague recollection, but the brutality of May 2008 serves to reawaken forgotten memories and stir up fears of a revival of sectarian violence. Yet despite these fears, the violence these characters witness helps them to break ... Read more
In Hilal Chouman's Limbo Beirut, a gay artist, a struggling novelist, a pregnant woman, a disabled engineering student, a former militia member, and a medical intern all take turns narrating the violent events of May 2008, when Hezbollah militants and Sunni fighters clashed in the streets of Beirut. For most of these young men and women, the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) is but a vague recollection, but the brutality of May 2008 serves to reawaken forgotten memories and stir up fears of a revival of sectarian violence. Yet despite these fears, the violence these characters witness helps them to break ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Emerging Voices from the Middle East
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477310052
SKU
V9781477310052
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About Hilal Chouman
Hilal Chouman was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1982. He studied electronics and communications engineering in Lebanon, France, and the UK. He currently works in digital marketing. Chouman is the author of three novels in Arabic: Stories of Sleep, Napolitana, and Limbo Beirut, which is the first to be translated into English. Anna Ziajka Stanton is Assistant Professor of Comparative ... Read more
Reviews for Limbo Beirut
Adding to the exemplary richness of Lebanese fiction, Hilal Chouman...opens up the window to the complexity of human behavior and emotions.
Wasafiri
The kaleidoscopic style can be challenging, but it successfully conveys the disjointed life of Lebanon at a time when the government was fighting itself, the country hated itself, and the explosion was inevitably ... Read more
Wasafiri
The kaleidoscopic style can be challenging, but it successfully conveys the disjointed life of Lebanon at a time when the government was fighting itself, the country hated itself, and the explosion was inevitably ... Read more