Beirut '75
by Ghada Samman
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In Lebanon during the war, the lives of five strangers brought together by a communal taxi ride. The protagonists include a woman who gives up teaching in a convent to become a man's mistress, an unemployed individual who becomes a thief, and a fisherman who wants his son to stop studying and enter the family business.Tags
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- People/Characters
- Yasmeena; Farah; Nimr Sakeeni; Abu'l Malla; Ta'aan; Abu Mustafa (a fisherman) (show all 9); Mustafa; Nishan (Farah's relative); Fadhil Salmouni
- Important places
- Lebanon
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
- DDC/MDS
- 892.736 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000
- LCC
- PJ7862 .A584 .B3913 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Arabic Arabic literature Individual authors or works
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
