Confessions / Rabee Jaber ; translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: New Directions paperbook ; 1329Publisher: New York : New Directions, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 120 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780811220675 (paperback : alk. paper); 0811220672 (paperback : alk. paper)Uniform titles: الاعترافات. الانكليزية Uniform titles: Iʻtirāfāt. English Subject(s): Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990) | Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Fiction | Orphans -- Lebanon -- Fiction | Orphans | Lebanon | Orphans -- Lebanon -- Fiction | Orphans -- Lebanon -- Fiction | Lebanon -- History -- 1975-1976 -- Fiction | Lebanon -- History -- 1975-1976 -- Fiction | 1975-1990Genre/Form: Novels. | Fiction. | History. | Novels.DDC classification: 892.7/37 LOC classification: PJ7840.A289 | I8513 2016Other classification: 18.74 Summary: During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hospital, adopted by one of the assassins, and raised in a new family. "My father used to kidnap and kill people..." begins this haunting tale of a child who was raised by the murderer of his real family. The narrator of Confessions doesn't shy away from the horrible truth of his murderous father-instead he confronts his troubled upbringing and seeks to understand the distortions and complexities of his memories, his war-torn country, and the quiet war that rages inside of him.
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"A New Directions paperbook original."
"Originally published as Al-I'tirafat in 2008. First published as New Directions Paperbook 1326 in 2016"--Title page verso.
During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hospital, adopted by one of the assassins, and raised in a new family. "My father used to kidnap and kill people..." begins this haunting tale of a child who was raised by the murderer of his real family. The narrator of Confessions doesn't shy away from the horrible truth of his murderous father-instead he confronts his troubled upbringing and seeks to understand the distortions and complexities of his memories, his war-torn country, and the quiet war that rages inside of him.
Translated from the Arabic.
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