أنتعل الغبار وأمشي

When gunmen attack her village in Lebanon, a girl's mother dies shielding her children, and the girl loses the power of speech. She loses sight of her brother in the crowds of the displaced at the harbour and, still a child, is left alone with her silence. She grows up in poverty and exile with her disability, and at night fills a secret notebook with what she cannot say aloud: her repressed desires, her grief and the memories that keep slipping back through the cracks of forgetting. Writing becomes her freedom, and as a young woman she becomes a journalist whose editors send her to war zones. She tells her own story in short, untitled chapters.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

253 pages in the original

Genres

War, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Lebanon

First published

2006 by Riad El-Rayyes

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9789953212586 (original)

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