Memory for Forgetfulness : August, Beirut, 1982.

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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 w...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: University of California Press, 2013.
Series:Literature of the Middle East.
Subjects:
Darwīsh, Maḥmūd
1982-1985
POETRY > General.
Lebanon > History > Israeli intervention, 1982-1985 > Personal narratives, Palestinian.
Beirut (Lebanon) > History.
Lebanon
Lebanon > Beirut
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