The Myrtle Tree Adel Khozam

The Myrtle Tree Adel KhozamYoung Adam Awad, his wife and daughter live in the remote village of his family, in the Lebanese countryside where his uncle maintains there are no vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North, no history of arms and bloodshed. He wants to restore his fathers olive press house and live an idyllic life farming in peace, but it is 1976 and the civil war is closing in. The village becomes divided, but still Adam is determined to find a way to stop the

just before the military coup that brought a dictatorship to Brazil

Laila Lalami – Excerpt from the novel Secret Son

and a keenly sensuous appreciation of the physical world complete this outstanding and original new collection

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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but begins an affair with another man

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Conversation avec Henri Lefebvre

the beautiful Hollywood silent-movie star who became a revolutionary photographer

Sonny Cohn

I felt my spirit turn to milk