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Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (Literature of the Middle East)
Memory for Forgetfulness August Beirut 1982 - Literature of the Middle East
Author: Mahmoud Darwish
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshim...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520273047
ISBN-10: 0520273044
Publication Date: 5/13/2013
Pages: 190
Edition: First Edition, With
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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