num_pages: 170
description: The Novelist Hassan Daoud presents a text whose setting and events are heavily inspired by the postwar Beirut city center, a place whose newness remains largely untreated by the literary imagination. In As She Once Was, the novelist grapples with age and place, with the pursuit of an impossible, lost love, and with ever-multiplying beginnings, opportunities to start a new arising time and again.ABOUT AUTHORHassan Daoud, is a Lebanese novelist and the author of three volumes of short stories and many novels, the first of which, Binayat Mathilde (The House of Mathilde), was published in 1983.Translated from the Arabic by Lina Mounzer.See more at: http://portal9journal.org/articles.as...
language: English
title: As She Once Was
publisher: FICTION: CONTEMPORARY ARABIC AND RUSSIAN PURSUITS AUTUMN 2013