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The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belongto four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during theLebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children desperate toemigrate with or without her husband. Warda cannot recover from the loss ofher daughter and finds that no matter how many times she goes over it thestory of her life no longer makes sense. Camilia has returned to Beirut to makea film about her former homeland but becomes irrevocably caught up in itsviolence. Maha remains in the building even as her family her neighbors hercity and country fracture around her. As the war continues each day unendingdivisions between past and present begin to break down. Youness intimatehaunting attention to these womens lives creates an unforgettable portrait notonly of her characters but of the nature of war. Here loss is the citys mostconstant resident and its story will inevitably overcome all the rest. «
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