The stone of laughter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hoda Barakat ; translated by Sophie Bennett.
Edition: 1st Amer. ed.
Series: Emerging voices
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Gay men -- Fiction.; Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.; Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A novel of the civil war in Lebanon whose protagonist is a homosexual trying to remain neutral. But as he discovers, neutrality in a civil war is not possible. He becomes involved like everyone else and is the better man for the experience gained. The novel won an award in Lebanon.
Notes: Series statement from jacket.