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Author Duwayhi, Jabbur, author

Title Poison in the air / by Jabbour Douaihy ; translated by Paula Haydar

Publication Info. Northhampton, Massachusetts : Interlink Books, 2024
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3201998~S1
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 Nichols Adult Fiction-NEW  F DUWAYHI    DUE 04-28-24
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Description 191 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in Arabic as Summun fi al-hawa in 2021 by Dar Al-Saqi, Beirut, Lebanon
Summary Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy's final novel, chronicles the decades of social, political, and economic turmoil leading up to and including the recent collapse of his beloved Lebanon after the horrific explosion that occurred at the Port of Beirut in 2020. Douaihy brings a multitude of bottled-up toxicity to the surface, as though he is writing his last letter to the world, or a suicide note for Lebanon, as he paints a picture of a society marching down a path to self-destruction
Subject Social isolation -- Fiction
Lebanon -- Fiction
Genre Fiction.
Romans.
Added Author Haydar, Paula, 1965- translator
ISBN 9781623717544
162371754X
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