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June Rain by Douaihy Jabbour, Paula Haydar (translation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of Lebanon's leading writers recreates a village forever transformed by the massacre of one Christian community by another, & its impact on a mother & her long-estranged son.On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is divided in two: the Al-Ramis in the north & their rivals, the Al-Semaanis, in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbors turn into enemies, & husbands & wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other & loyalty to their clan.Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killings or whose lives were forever altered by them. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker, whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line, hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him.At the center of Douaihy’s masterful novel is Eliyya, who, twenty year

Who reads June Rain?

Author

Douaihy Jabbour, Paula Haydar (translation)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9789927101083

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Family Sagas