Broken Mirrors

Sinalcol

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Pub Date 09 Feb 2016 | Archive Date 14 Jul 2015

Description

Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist political circles within which he once roamed under the nom de guerre Sinalcol. By the end of his six-month stay, he has been reintroduced to the chaos of cultural, religious and political battles that continue to rage in Lebanon. Overwhelmed by the experiences of his return, Karim is forced to contemplate his identity and his place in Lebanon's history. The story of Karim and his family is born of other stories that intertwine to form an imposing fresco of Lebanese society over the past fifty years. Broken Mirrors examines the roots of an endemic civil war and a country's unsettled past.

Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his...


Advance Praise

"[Khoury] is a writer of panoramic scope and ambition, and Broken Mirrors is rich with sly ironies, incisive political observations, and a cosmopolitan array of ideas and literary allusions." --Azadeh Moaveni, Financial Times

"By turns tender, cruel, violent, passionate, but at the same time profoundly literary." --L'Orient Littéraire (Lebanon)

"Khoury's capacious and entrancing novel, masterfully translated by the award-winning Humphrey Davies, is an extraordinary achievement." --The National (UAE)

"Khoury's narrative skills in this novel are at their peak: reading Shattered Mirror one has the impression of finding oneself in the eye of a whirlwind of a thousand tales, first glimpsed at, then shattered, then finally recovered." --Finzioni Magazine (Italy)

"In Sinalcol (Shattered Mirror), the great storyteller Elias Khoury recounts nearly fifty years of in Lebanese history in his usual eloquence" --Le Nouvel Observateur(France)

"This bounding novel by Elias Khoury is a powerful illustration of Lebanon, its history, and the intricate mosaic of religious communities and political factions that must coexist in this small country" --La Cause Littéraire (France)

"[Khoury] is a writer of panoramic scope and ambition, and Broken Mirrors is rich with sly ironies, incisive political observations, and a cosmopolitan array of ideas and literary allusions."...


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