Description: This groundbreaking work of Arabic fiction, now translated into English for the first time, explores how young adults in Lebanon experienced the violent clashes between Hezbollah militants and Sunni fighters in 2008.
Brief description: Hilal Chouman was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1982. He studied electronics and communications engineering in Lebanon, France, and the UK. He currently works in digital marketing. Chouman is the author of three novels in Arabic: Stories of Sleep, Napolitana, and Limbo Beirut, which is the first to be translated into English.
Review Quotes: The novel exemplifies how this current generation of Lebanese authors and artists, raised during the tail end of the country's civil war and the beginnings of an ongoing reconstruction, have been able to interpret more recent conflicts. These accounts are full of inchoate memories of the last war, and disillusion with any future wars.-- "The National" (8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM)