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The broken mirrors, Sinalcol, Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

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The broken mirrors, Sinalcol, Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

The broken mirrors

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Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Sub title

Sinalcol

Summary

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from war? It was not to answer his brother Naseem's call and raise a hospital out the ashes; it was not to pursue past sweethearts and father the son his wife never gave him. It was to find a man, or the ghost of a man, a man known only as Sinalcol, legendary hero of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself. In Beirut Karim will confront the fate of old comrades, the truth about his father's death and a brother who is all but a twin in appearance but shares nothing of his soul. And he will learn that peace is only ever fleeting in a war without end

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Sinalcol

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