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The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol
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448 pages
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11 April 2016
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Summary
Why did he return to Beirut?
Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from civil war? Was it to answer his brother Nasim’s call to raise a hospital out of the ashes? Was it to kick over the traces of past love affairs? Or to establish the truth behind his father’s death? Or was it to confront at last the ghost of the man known only as “Sinalcol”, a legendary phantom of the ci…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848667723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848667728 |
| Author: | Elias Khoury, Humphrey Davies |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 133mm x 29mm |
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Khoury is a writer of panoramic scope and ambition… the Broken Mirrors is rich with sly ironies, incisive political observations, and a cosmopolitan array of ideas and literary allusions - Financial Times
Khoury’s capacious and entrancing novel, masterfully translated by the award-winning Humphrey Davies, is an extraordinary achievement - The NationalTake your pick, but either Karim Shammas, who has returned to Beirut from France, or his father, Nasri, are the most memorable philanderers to have graced the pages of a novel bursting through the seams of history since Milan Kundera unveiled Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being … What is beautiful and immediate about Khoury’s prose in is his depiction of Beirut in The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol, easily on a par with Pamuk and Istanbul or Marc Pastor and Barcelona: there is a shifting of the tenses as characters appear and disappear whilst the weft of the tale of Karim’s return untangles. - EchoAbout The Author
Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury is the author of thirteen novels, four volumes of literary criticism and three plays. He was editor-in-chief of the cultural supplement of Beirut’s daily newspaper, An-Nahar, and is Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.
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