شريد المنازل

Nizam is a Muslim by birth, but he grows up in the house of a Christian family that loves him no less than his own, and so he has no fixed religious or geographical belonging. A young man without qualities, he crosses Beirut in all its faces: its universities, cafés and streets, its women, its revolutionary leftism and artistic fashions, and the freedom to speak, gather and love that marked the city in the 1960s and early 1970s. Through him the novel surveys the sects and factions of Lebanese society, the ties between village and city and the country's links to the wider world, and watches that shared space of life, love and culture being destroyed bit by bit as the civil war begins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

257 pages in the original

Genres

War, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Lebanon, 1960s–1970s

First published

2010 by Dar an-Nahar

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9789953742861 (original)

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