Poison in the Air
by Jabbour Douaihy, Paula Haydar
Publisher
Interlink Publishing
Publication
Jan 30, 2024
Format
Paperback/Softback
Illustrated
No
Price
$17.00
Dimensions
5.25 x 8 x 0.6 in
ISBN
978-1623717544
ASIN
162371754X
Pages
256
Age
Adult 18+
Category
Literary Fiction
Rights Sold
🌍 World Wide Rights Available
Description
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| Publisher | Interlink Publishing |
| Publication | Jan 30, 2024 |
| Format | Paperback/Softback |
| ISBN | 978-1623717544 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Age | 19 - 99 |
| Price | $17.00 |
Categories
Literary Fiction
BISAC Codes
FICTION / Literary
Poison in the Air
by Jabbour Douaihy, Paula Haydar
The final novel from one of Lebanon’s greatest writers and narrator of Lebanese life.
Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy’s final novel, chronicles the decades of social, political, and economic turmoil leading up to and including the recent collapse of his beloved Lebanon after the horrific explosion that occurred at the Port of Beirut in 2020. Douaihy brings a multitude of bottled-up toxicity to the surface, as though he is writing his last letter to the world, or a suicide note for Lebanon, as he paints a picture of a society marching down a path to self-destruction.
A first-person narration by an unnamed male protagonist, his generation’s journey—like his country’s history—seems to echo that of the phoenix. While that mythical creature is continually reborn from its own ashes, ever resilient, we now see it once again plummeting back into the fire, but as if nearly defeated, “filled with the poison of disappointments.” (Elias Khoury, L’Orient Litteraire, 2021) As imagined by Douaihy, being cut off from others and absorbed in self-interest brings out humanity’s most lethal, destructive nature.
Poison in the Air
Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy’s final novel, chronicles the decades of social, political, and economic turmoil leading up to and including the recent collapse of his beloved Lebanon after the horrific explosion that occurred at the Port of Beirut in 2020. Douaihy brings a multitude of bottled-up toxicity to the surface, as though he is writing his last letter to the world, or a suicide note for Lebanon, as he paints a picture of a society marching down a path to self-destruction.
A first-person narration by an unnamed male protagonist, his generation’s journey—like his country’s history—seems to echo that of the phoenix. While that mythical creature is continually reborn from its own ashes, ever resilient, we now see it once again plummeting back into the fire, but as if nearly defeated, “filled with the poison of disappointments.” (Elias Khoury, L’Orient Litteraire, 2021) As imagined by Douaihy, being cut off from others and absorbed in self-interest brings out humanity’s most lethal, destructive nature.
Poison in the Air
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