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Duwayhī, Jabbūr,

June rain / Jabbour Douaihy ; translated by Paula Haydar. - 310 pages ; 22 cm

"First published in Arabic in 2006 as Matar Hzayran by Dar Al-Nahar, Beirut"--Title page verso. "Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction"--Cover.

Brilliant, insightful and sensitively told novel that shatters the taboos surrounding the massacres perpetrated in northern Lebanon during the late 1950s, with a blend realism, caricature and subtle irony.

ISBN: 9789992142783 9992142782

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arabic fiction--Translations into English.
Roman
Arabisch
Arabic fiction.
Social conditions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Lebanon--History--1946-1975--Fiction.
Lebanon--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Lebanon.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.
History.
Translations.
Arabic fiction--Translations into English.

LC Class. No.: PJ7820.U92 / .M3813 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 892.737