Beirut Noir

Rawi Hage, Iman Humaydan, Muhammad Abi Samra, Tarek Abi Samra, Najwa Barakat, Abbas Beydoun, Bana Beydoun, Leila Eid, Bachir Hilal, Hala Kawtharani, Zena El Khalil, Mazen Maarouf, Alawiya Sobh, Marie Tawk+, The Amazin’ Sardine, Hyam Yared

Серия: Akashic Noir

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Beirut is a city of contradiction and paradox. It is an urban and rural city, one of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness. Beirut is a city of war and peace. This story collection is a part of a vibrant, living recovery of Beirut. Beirut Noir recovers the city once again through writing, through the literary visions of its authors.

Assembling this collection was an ambitious experiment for me; editing it was fascinating and full of challenges. It is by no means easy to bring together a book of fifteen short stories by writers with such different perspectives on Beirut. Fourteen Lebanese writers, and one Palestinian writer born and raised in Beirut, contributed to the book you are holding today. Taken together, their stories reflect the city’s underworld and seedy realities. Each story is only one tiny piece of a larger mosaic; they all coalesce here to offer us a more complete picture of the city.

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