Damascus
Subtitle: Taste of a City
Edition: revised edition
Series: Armchair Traveller
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: May 2009
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Damaskus: der Geschmack einer Stadt
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781906598839
Description: Rafik Schami lived in Damascus for twenty-five years before he was forced into exile in Europe. Damascus: Taste of a City is a paean to the city he loves more than any other, the city he pines for.

Able only to conjure the distant memories of his home town, Schami’s sister Marie Fadel, wanders the city on his behalf, relishing in the curiosities, sounds, personalities, tastes and smells of their childhood, relaying them to her brother over the phone as she walks. He wrote them down, revelling the diverse mark left on Damascene cuisine by the city’s multifarious history.