Books by Rabee Jaber and Complete Book Reviews

Rabee Jaber, trans. from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2064-4
Lebanese novelist Jaber receives his first English translation as he follows Beirut architect Saman Yarid from restaurant to restaurant and date to date in the hectic period after Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri's 2005 assassination. As Yarid's...
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Rabee Jaber, trans. from the Arabic by Kareem Abu-Zeid. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2067-5
One day in 1976, Maroun, the narrator of this moving short novel from Lebanese author Jaber, is shot and wounded on the demarcation line that divides Beirut. A small child at the time, Maroun loses one family but gains another. "My father used to...
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