The Mehlis Report - Couverture souple

Jaber, Rabee

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811220648 ISBN 13 : 9780811220644

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

A complex thriller, The Mehlis Report introduces English readers to a highly talented Arabic writer. When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri is killed by a massive bomb blast, the U.N. appoints German judge Detlev Mehlisto conduct an investigation of the attack -- while explosions continue to rock Beirut. Mehlis's report is eagerly awaited by the entire Lebanese population.

First we meet Saman Yarid, a middle-aged architect who wanders the tense streets of Beirut and, like everyone else in the city, can't stop thinking about the pending report. Saman's sister Josephine, who was kidnapped in 1983, narrates the second part of The Mehlis Report: Josephine is dead, yet exists in a bizarre underworld in the bowels of Beirut where the dead are busy writing their memoirs. Then the ghost of Hariri himself appears...

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

The author of eighteen novels, the Lebanese writer Rabee Jaber was born in Beirut in 1972. He is the editor of Afaaq, the weekly cultural supplement of Al-Hayat, the daily pan-Arab newspaper.

KAREEM JAMES ABU-ZEID is the award-winning translator of Rabee Jaber's Confessions and The Mehlis Report, and Dunya Mikhail's The Iraqi Nights.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811220648
• ISBN 13: 9780811220644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible