The broken mirrors
Subtitle: Sinalcol
By: Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
Contributors: Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), translator
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781848669826; 9780857053640; 9781848667730
Subjects: Text; Roman; Fiction; History
Other titles: Sinalcol
Work titles: Sīnālkūl
Description: Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from war? It was not to answer his brother Naseem's call and raise a hospital out the ashes; it was not to pursue past sweethearts and father the son his wife never gave him. It was to find a man, or the ghost of a man, a man known only as Sinalcol, legendary hero of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself. In Beirut Karim will confront the fate of old comrades, the truth about his father's death and a brother who is all but a twin in appearance but shares nothing of his soul. And he will learn that peace is only ever fleeting in a war without end.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.