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As civil war comes to Beirut, the lives of three teenagers—a student, a nurse, and a sniper—become intertwined in a city reduced to a battleground. Rules are made and remade, and everyone is at once victim and perpetrator, helping to keep their landscapes of violence alive.
'As timely as today's headline, and as timeless as a Levantine love song, Abbas El-Zein draws on his own experience of Beirut's bitter war to create a novel that is elegant and elegiac. This writer has the rarest combination of gifts: a scientist's precision and a poet's eloquence.' — Geraldine Brooks, internationally bestselling, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist
Abbas El-Zein has written for numerous newspapers and literary journals including The New York Times, The Guardian, Meanjin, and HEAT Magazine. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Leave to Remain (2009), also in the Untapped Collection, and the short story collection The Secret Maker of...
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