June rain / Jabbour Douaihy ; translated by Paula Haydar.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Doha, Qatar : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2014Description: 310 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789992142783; 9992142782Uniform titles: مطر حزيران. انكليزي Uniform titles: Maṭar Ḥazīran. English Subject(s): Arabic fiction -- Translations into English | Lebanon -- History -- 1946-1975 -- Fiction | Lebanon -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction | Roman | Arabisch | Arabic fiction | Social conditions | Lebanon | 1900-1999Genre/Form: Fiction. | History. | Translations. | Arabic fiction -- Translations into English.DDC classification: 892.737 LOC classification: PJ7820.U92 | .M3813 2014Summary: 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.
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"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.
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