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This novel examines the strength of kin ties against the pull of national identity. The story follows the lives of three generations in a Lebanese family, and thus offers the reader a moving picture of how the Lebanese Civil War caused the dispersal of a traditional family across the world.
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1 edition- Other · English · 1997Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin · 186 pages · 9780292755642
Fiction, historical, generalLebanon, fiction