Flight against time
By: Emily Nasrallah ; translated from Arabic by Issa J. Boullata.
Contributors: Boullata, Issa J., 1929-
Series: Modern Middle East literatures in translation series
Publisher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Description: This novel examines the strength of kin ties against the pull of national identity. The story follows the lives of three generations in a Lebanese family, and thus offers the reader a moving picture of how the Lebanese Civil War caused the dispersal of a traditional family across the world.