Beirut
- 2013
An old woman alone in her Beirut flat translates one book a year, which no one reads.
- 1980
Mount Lebanon
- 1993
1830s: a boy of a Lebanese mountain village, between the emir, Egypt and the English.
Beirut in its civil war, and the mountain villages of Maalouf’s nineteenth century.
2 places, 3 books,
An old woman alone in her Beirut flat translates one book a year, which no one reads.
1830s: a boy of a Lebanese mountain village, between the emir, Egypt and the English.
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