Beirut '75

By غادة السمان

Book Overview

Ghada Samman's first full-length novel, originally published in Arabic in 1974, is a creative and daring work prophetically depicting the social and political causes of the Lebanese civil war in 1975.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557283826
• ISBN13: 9781557283825
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Very progressive

This is a very progressive book. I have read it in 1974 and found it to reflect the true picture of beirut at that time which society tried to hide behind traditional roles and responsibilities.

SUPERB!

THIS AMAZING WORK OF LITERATURE THAT DEFINES THE HUMAN NATURE, ITS NEEDS, SINS AND PORTRAYS HOW PEOPLE IN THEIR PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS MIGHT JUST LEAVE IT BEHIND IN THEIR HASTE TO FIND IT. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS NOVEL FOR ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN ARABIC LITERATURE OR THAT OF ANY PSYCHOLOGICAL GENRE. SAMMAN'S TECHNIQUE IS JUST WAY TOO SOPHISTICATED IN THIS WORK.