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The stone of laughter : a novel / Hoda Barakat ; translated by Sophie Bennett.
Van Pelt Library PJ7816.A672 H3513 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barakāt, Hudá, 1952-
- Series:
- Emerging voices
- Standardized Title:
- Ḥajar al-ḍaḥk. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Lebanon.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--Fiction.
- Beirut (Lebanon).
- Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Fiction.
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 213 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Amer. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Interlink Books, 1995.
- Summary:
- A novel of the civil war in Lebanon whose protagonist is a homosexual trying to remain neutral. But as he discovers, neutrality in a civil war is not possible. He becomes involved like everyone else and is the better man for the experience gained. The novel won an award in Lebanon.
- Notes:
- Series statement from jacket.
- ISBN:
- 1566561973 :
- 9781566561976
- 1566561906
- 9781566561907
- OCLC:
- 32312870
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