Confessions /
During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hos...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
New Directions Books,
2016
New York : New Directions, 2016 |
| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
1329 New Directions paperbook 1329 New Directions paperbook |
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| Summary: | During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hospital, adopted by one of the assassins, and raised in a new family. "My father used to kidnap and kill people..." begins this haunting tale of a child who was raised by the murderer of his real family. The narrator of Confessions doesn't shy away from the horrible truth of his murderous father-instead he confronts his troubled upbringing and seeks to understand the distortions and complexities of his memories, his war-torn country, and the quiet war that rages inside of him |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "New Directions paperbook original"--title page |
| Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0811220672 9780811220675 |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- New York |