The Penguin's Song

• Book ID: 126221487
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 636 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ 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...

✦ Subjects

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