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Guard of the Dead
حارس الموتى · Haris al-mawta
George Yaraq · 57 when first published
Novel · 244 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Early in the Lebanese civil war, Abir trains as a sniper, but the unexplained death of his closest friend scares him off the barracks and into a life of drifting, until he finds work in a hospital morgue.