Binding: Paperback
Description: Feels revolutionary in its freshness. Entertainment Weekly The Arsonists City delivers all the pleasures of a good old - fashioned saga but in Alyan's hands one family's tale becomes the story of a nation Lebanon and Syria yes but also the United States. It's the kind of book we are lucky to have. Rumaan Alam A rich family story a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home The Nasr family is spread across the globe Beirut Brooklyn Austin the California desert. A Syrian mother a Lebanese father and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still they ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut a constant touchstone and the complicated messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death Idris the family's new patriarch has decided to sell. The decision brings the family to Beirut where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house. They all have secrets lost loves bitter jealousies abandoned passions deep - set shame that distance has helped smother. But in a city smoldering with the legacy of war an ongoing flow of refugees religious tension and political protest those secrets ignite imperiling the fragile ties that hold this family together. In a novel teeming with wisdom warmth and characters born of remarkable human insight award - winning author Hala Alyan shows us again that fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us (NPR).
Title: The Arsonists City A Novel
Author(s): Alyan Hala
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780358695233
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Category: Fiction-Related Items