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Passage to Dusk

Passage to Dusk

Al-Daif, Rashid
Tanoukhi, Nirvana
Shammas, Anton

Paperback

Series: Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0292705077
ISBN13: 9780292705074
Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
Published: Aug 1 2001
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.66
Language: English

Passage to Dusk deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a postmodern, poetic style. The narrative focuses on the deranged, destabilized, confused, and hyper-perceptive state of mind created by living on the scene through a lengthy war. The story is filled with details that transcend the willed narcissism of the main character, while giving clues to the culture of the time. It is excellent fiction, written in a surrealistic mode, but faithful to the characters of the people of Lebanon, their behavior during the war, and their contradictions. Issues of gender and identity are acutely portrayed against Lebanon's shifting national landscape.

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