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With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level. The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos surrounding the heroine, Asmahan, as she futilely writes letters to her loved ones, to her friends, to Beirut, and to the war itself--letters of lament that are never to be answered except with their own resounding echoes. In Beirut Blues, Hanan al-Shaykh evokes a Beirut that has been seen by few, and that will never be seen again.**From Publishers WeeklyAl-Shaykh's third novel takes the form of a series of letters through which a woman contrasts Beirut's cosmopolitan past with its disastrous present. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalHow can one respond when home becomes unrecognizable? In her third novel (following The Story of Zahra, Interlink, 1992), al-Shaykh uses the unsent letters of her narrator, Asmaran, to explore the deep sorrows and profound transformations, external and internal, brought by ling

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Author

Hanan Al-Shaykh [al-Shaykh, Hanan]

Publisher

Anchor Books/Doubleday

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385473811

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.33 / 5 (225 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14