Passage to DuskThis novel deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a postmodern, poetic style. |
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Abu Ali afraid al-Daif answer Anton Shammas apartment ashtray asked balcony Barbeer bathroom blood body breath brother-in-law candle checkpoint Christian cigarette closed the door clothes couch cross darkness dress drowsiness Druze eyes felt front green line grew hair happened Hassan heard hospital humid husband kidnap killed kitchen knock leave Lebanese Lebanese civil war Lebanese Communist Party Lebanon left hand light living room look married Meryl Streep mosquitoes moved Muslim novel opened the door Palestinian panicked Passage to Dusk Playboy magazines pocket proprioception pulled Rashid reached realized remembered returned right arm scream shell Shi'ite shoulder sleeping pills slipped someone son's room South Beirut started stay stood stopped streets super super's wife sure taxi tell thighs things thirst told took tried turned waited walked water wasn't running West Beirut woman in mourning would've wounded