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Join now Friday, March 31, 2006 Home About Us Advertise Syndicate Archives Forum Classifieds Subscribe Contact us Search Search Criteria Author Keyword Date Advanced Search Daily Star Sections Middle-East Lebanon Middle-East News Politics Business Editorial Opinion Arts & Culture Special Reports Interviews Readers' Letters Today's Cartoons Site Services Registration PDF version Digital Edition Classifieds RSS Feeds Add DS Headlines Feeding on a passion for love and language Hoda Barakat's newly translated novel tackles mental breakdown alongside the disintegration of the state By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Daily Star staff Saturday, April 01, 2006 BEIRUT: A gay man stumbles through wartime Beirut, mourning the loss of a lover.

He loses his bearings, both mental and physical, and is briefly, abruptly transformed from a peaceful, listless noncombatant into a violent, aggressive militiaman.

Another young man wanders disastrously into the no man's land of the city center, where he is trapped and preyed upon by wild dogs.

He finds his father's old fabric shop and, like Scheherazade with her gender in reverse, he begins to tell tales about his childhood love for a Kurdish maid, using the to...

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