Beirut blues
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hanan al-Shaykh ; translated by Catherine Cobham.
Contributors: Cobham, Catherine.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Women -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Fiction.; Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Beirut blues is an intimate and engaging portrait of a woman named Asmahan who writes letters in an effort to make sense of her life and to preserve her fond memories of Beirut as it existed before civil strife destroyed it forever.