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Beirut Noir (Paperback)
Iman Humaydan; Translated by Michelle Hartman
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While making a documentary film about the reconstruction of
downtown Beirut, Maya Amer stumbles upon a battered leather
suitcase that will change her life forever. Inside it she finds
letters, photographs, a diary, and an envelope labeled: Letters
from Istanbul. The Weight of Paradise is both the story of Maya and
her discovery, and also the story of the owner of these papers,
Noura Abu Sawwan, a journalist who fled Syria just before the
Lebanese civil war to find greater freedom of expression. A
multi-voiced, multi-genre narration, it interweaves the stories of
these two women and the people who surround them within the fabric
of Beirut in the civil war and its immediate aftermath. A love
story as well as a story of women's liberation and political
freedom, the novel is also the tale of a city and country torn
apart by repression, occupation, and war.
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