Date 27 August 2020
Pages 240
Format cm 14 x 19
Price € 20.00
EAN 9782848053608
Publisher Website www.swediteur.com

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Author Dima Abdallah
Publisher Sabine Wespieser
Keywords Juggler
Against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war, this beautiful first novel intertwines the voices of father and daughter, expressing their inner exile and infinite loss.

A child born in Beirut during the civil war is used to having to hide their fear and suddenly move out of their home.
The child's father, a poet who has decided not to take sides in the conflict, has nothing to offer his daughter but anguish, lucidity, silence and a lavish green patch of paradise. When she was twelve years-old, her family fled to Paris, leaving her behind. As a teenager and then as an adult, she continues to take refuge among her beloved plants. In this first novel, Dima Abdallah gives a heartbreaking account of her ongoing battle with the memory of a childhood in ruins.

  • Sales in France 6,700 copies
  • As of: September 2021