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"A novel in the Arabic language by Syrian writer Laila al-Hashemi. The novel approximates the lived of 3 Syrian women who come together on a trip to Beirut to escape the reality that face them in a country torn apart. While in Lebanon the women to confront themselves, their past, and the authority of society and country." -- alkitab.com
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Set against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war in Beirut, Faten tells the story of a young teenager set on excelling at school who has her normal life disrupted by the war. Forced to leave her village to work as a maid in Beirut, she faces many difficult situations but she overcomes them with her wit, ambition and the aid of a few supportive friends.
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With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book...
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Slaughterhouse-Five is an account of Billy Pilgrim's capture and incarceration by the Germans during the last years of World War II, and scattered throughout the narrative are episodes from Billy's life both before and after the war, and from his travels to the planet Tralfamadore.
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