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With supreme artistry and insight - and in modern Arab literary fashion - Ghada Samman skillfully blends realism with fantasy into a highly stylized, thematically multilayered tale. It is at once a Gothic romance and a suspenseful whodunit with engaging characters. At the same time it is a gripping study of social injustice and the consequences of wartime upheaval. Far from home and out of harm's way, Samman's Lebanese exiles repeat and replay the very same conflicts that torment them in their own land even as it is under siege. Night of the First Billion is an eloquent reminder that the only genuine security in the most profound and human sense of the word is to be found in the courageous willingness to confront, challenge, and finally to ease suffering.

Author Biography:

Ghada Samman, author of more than twenty-eight books including the first two books of this trilogy, Beirut '75 and Beirut Nightmares, has been referred to as the most prominent Syrian women writer of fiction of the last century. Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic.
Release date NZ
February 28th, 2005
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
547
Dimensions
168x241x35
ISBN-13
9780815608295
Product ID
3776315

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