![]() In all the suffering and confusion we have this story of a Lebanese Christian family trying to make the best of a bad situation. The Lebanese Civil War was for the Middle-East what The Seven Years War was for Europe in permanently changing things. ![]() I was not sure how I was going to feel about this book until I saw this close-up of Florence Griffith Joyner's fingernails:Īfter this point, the book spoke to me as art and memory of one of the most tumultuous times in human history. ![]() The author's subtle use of stream-of-consciousness reminds me of James Joyce. This book about life during the Lebanese Civil War is not as in-depth as that one, but its simplicity and its art reveals its beauty. I read this book while waiting for my copy of the follow-up to The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars." - Chris Marker (Epigraph of this book.) " Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. ![]() Over the city's face." - From The Desert (The Diary of Beirut Under Siege) by Adonis Prophetic sayings and ancient wisdom see themselves, ![]()
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