| #849687 in Books | 2011-11-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.37 x1.00 x6.38l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 296 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good book with a different style of storytelling|By ROBIE|Gives a different perspective of the Civil War in Lebanon. Detail accounts of incident that happened during the war and the different groups/parties that were involved in the war. Good book with a different style of storytelling. Parts of the book could make you think back if you where a child growing up in these event||Lamia Ziadé succeeds in recreating the aesthetics of how war affects a contemporary consumerist society. || Le Monde||| || A story of initiation at once rich, fascinating and relentless... --L Humanité|From the Back C
Tragedy and innocence coexist in this delicate reconstruction of the author s childhood during Lebanon s civil war
In 1975 I was seven years old, and loved the Bazooka bubble-gums my mother would buy for Walid and me in Spinney s supermarket...
Beirut in the 1970s is a paradise. Wealthy families ride escalators and fill shopping carts with imported food and luxury products from Paris and New York. Lamia Ziadé, seven years old, dreams of bana...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979 | Lamia Ziade. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
