Dream Palace of the Arabs
Subtitle: A Generation's Odyssey
Publisher: Vintage
Published: June 29, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780375704741
First sentence: WHEN THE IRAQI poet Buland Haidari was buried in London in the summer of 1996, the men and women of Arabic letters who bade him farewell could not miss the poignancy of his fate.