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S'està carregant… B as in Beirut (2008)de Iman Humaydan Younes
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The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children, desperate to emigrate, with or without her husband. Warda cannot recover from the loss of her daughter, and finds that no matter how many times she goes over it, the story of her life no longer makes sense. Camilia has returned to Beirut to make a film about her former homeland, but becomes irrevocably caught up in its violence. Maha remains in the building even as her family, her neighbors, her city and country fracture around her. As the war continues each day, unending, divisions between past and present begin to break down. Younes's intimate, haunting attention to these women's lives creates an unforgettable portrait not only of her characters but of the nature of war. Here, loss is the city's most constant resident, and its story will inevitably overcome all the rest. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)892.7Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (3.25)
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By sally tarbox on 24 June 2017
Format: Paperback
In four separate - but interlinked - narratives, the author writes from the point of view of each of four women living in a Beirut apartment block. The Civil War is at its height, but life goes on - though a tormented, fractured, unreal sort of life.
"Life continued its cycle and people went back to their work and their thoughts. But when the sounds got closer, everyone started running in all directions, and in a few minutes the street was empty. It returned to its normal state, silent and bleak. It became empty except for their smells, as though the masterful fingers of a magician had passed over their heads and hid them up his sleeves."
As bombing becomes a regular event, the women are overcome variously with depression, madness, plans to flee, a need to live life to the full - or wreak revenge.
It's an evocative book which must give a pretty fair picture of how life was.
I have to say that I found the unremitting awfulness a little wearing by the end - with four separate lives (though they all read rather similarly) perhaps the reader doesn't get into one character enough to feel as deeply as she might.
But certainly brings the era to life (