The Myrtle Tree: A Novel of Love and Dreams in War-torn Lebanon - Softcover

El Hage, Jad

 
9780954966645: The Myrtle Tree: A Novel of Love and Dreams in War-torn Lebanon
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0954966643 ISBN 13: 9780954966645
Verlag: Banipal Books, 2010

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A poignant saga of how a young Lebanese family try everything to stop the encroaching civil war tear apart their rural life. Young Adam Awad, his wife and daughter live in the remote village of his family, in the Lebanese countryside where his uncle maintains there are no “vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North, no history of arms and bloodshed”.He wants to restore his father’s olive press house and live an idyllic life farming in peace, but it is 1976 and the civil war is closing in. The village becomes divided, but still Adam is determined to find a way to stop the escalation… Jad El Hage comments: “The most recent of our wars began in the 1970s and ended by stages in the early 1990s, depending on how one defines ‘beginning’ and ‘end’. This uncertainty characterised the entire conflict. The only certainty is that we killed each other for more than fifteen years.”

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Jad el Hage was born in Beirut in 1946. A poet, novelist and playwright, his first works appeared in Beirut newspapers in 1966. He has been a journalist since he was sixteen, and an editor and radio broadcaster in Beirut, Paris, Athens, London and Sydney. His published works in Arabic include one novel, seven collections of poetry and one of short stories, a play for radio and four for theatre. He has three novels in English – The Last Migration (Panache Publications, 2002) and The Myrtle Tree (BanBanipal Books, 2007) and One Day in April (Quartet Books, 2011).

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Verlag
Banipal Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0954966643
ISBN 13 
9780954966645
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
287
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