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Chargement... Printed in Beirutpar Jabbour Douaihy
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Douaihy's style put me off a little a first, being digressive with anecdotal paragraphs. This soon proves to be strength, rather than weakness, providing much vivid insight into the cultural depth of life in Lebanon. The title of the book implicitly affirms that the country have some claim to global and cosmopolitan cred. Underlying the book are the many coexisting cultures and religions that make up Lebanon and that they reflect real norms in the region set against than the tendency (maybe?) to be relegated as an anomaly. Though this historical coexistence is tenuous, even ravaged with conflict roots run deep. For all this, under the surface the story-line is engaging, picaresque and accessible in a way that is never aloof. I didn't take long for me to find myself enjoying it a great deal. I'm probably going to check out his other books, as they have been translated to English (the translation of this book is excellent, by the way). One has to give equal acknowledgement of the translator, when it come s to world literature. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A DAZZLING MYSTERY SET IN THE WORLD OF LEBANON'S BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY--Farid Abou Cha'r arrives in Beirut on a hot summer morning with his manuscript, looking for a publisher. He is turned down by all of them--"nobody reads anymore," he is told. Instead, he accepts a job as a proofreader at the famous old print house "Karam Bros.," allegedly established in 1908. Disappointed by the menial tasks of checking catalogs and ad copy, Farid secretly hopes that his book will eventually be published. His manuscript never leaves his side until one day it disappears and then reemerges, beautifully printed. Farid soon realizes that the expensive paper it's printed on is the same that the company is using to manufacture fake twenty-euro bills, and that the person who printed the book is none other than his boss's wife. Entangled in a police investigation and an illicit flirtation, Farid discovers that the Karam Bros. print house is not what it seems. Douaihy dizzies the reader with an intricate play of appearances and deception, and as always, portrays Lebanese society with exquisite irony. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)892.7Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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