The Penguin's Song

✍ Scribed by Daoud, Hassan; Booth, Marilyn (translator)

• Book ID: 108632469
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 210 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780872866546

✦ Synopsis

"I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman
"In The Penguin's Song , a city falls, a father dies, two women walk the same road over and over, a boy with a broken body dreams of love. Like Agota Kristof's Notebook Trilogy , this spare yet lyrical parable tells us more about exile, loss and the wearing away of hope than most us want to know. I love this beautiful book."--Rebecca Brown, author of American Romances and The End of Youth
"Daoud's claustrophobic novel hauntingly conveys one family's isolation after being relocated during the Lebanese civil war. . . . Daoud's evocation of history as it is experienced is excellent. His characters live through momentous events, but their struggles to survive land them in a kind of purgatory. A novel that defies expectations as it summons up the displacement and...