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"One Beirut night at the beginning of the new millennium, when the city is hit by yet another power-cut and the sonic booms of Israeli jets echo around the hillsides, Maya Hayek storms out of her house after a heated argument with her mother. Meanwhile a plane from England is forced to make an emergency landing on its way to Dubai and James, recently-fired pop video director and reluctant mobile phone salesman, finds himself stranded in a city that will turn his life upside down." "Bliss Street is a colourful, fast-paced and brilliantly plotted novel that illuminates the extraordinary mosiac of modern Lebanon. In this Middle Eastern Short Cuts, a rich Beirut socialite with a hidden past, a Palestinian refugee in search of her long-lost relatives and the eagle-eyed, gossiping Mrs Jihad collide with the lives of James and Maya. Alongside pop videos, politics, arranged marriages, diamond smuggling, and the huge upheavals of the Israeli military withdrawal they form a vibrant backdrop to the passionate love affair that develops between two unlikely individuals."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved