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- catalog abstract ""As a young Lebanese man lies dying in a makeshift mortuary in Beirut during the last days of the civil war in 1991, thoughts of his past life flood through his mind. In his disordered imagination, he writes to the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata who had killed himself in 1972, and argues with him about dying, free will and the value of memory which is for him 'a support untouched by doubt'." "Reaching back to his childhood in the mountains of Northern Lebanon, he recalls the time when Gagarin first orbited the earth and he had to insist to his mother that the world was round, not flat. His move to university in Beirut, the death of his father and his entanglement in the violent politics of the 1970s lead to fierce commitment and an eventual loss of faith."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "ʻAzīzī al-Sayyid Kawābātā. English".
- catalog contributor b11395408.
- catalog contributor b11395409.
- catalog coverage "Beirut (Lebanon) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Lebanon History Civil War, 1975 Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Lebanon History Civil War, 1975-1990 Fiction.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""As a young Lebanese man lies dying in a makeshift mortuary in Beirut during the last days of the civil war in 1991, thoughts of his past life flood through his mind. In his disordered imagination, he writes to the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata who had killed himself in 1972, and argues with him about dying, free will and the value of memory which is for him 'a support untouched by doubt'." "Reaching back to his childhood in the mountains of Northern Lebanon, he recalls the time when Gagarin first orbited the earth and he had to insist to his mother that the world was round, not flat. His move to university in Beirut, the death of his father and his entanglement in the violent politics of the 1970s lead to fierce commitment and an eventual loss of faith."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "ix, 166 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Dear Mr Kawabata.".
- catalog identifier "0704381133".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dear Mr Kawabata.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng ara".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Quartet Books,".
- catalog relation "Dear Mr Kawabata.".
- catalog spatial "Beirut (Lebanon) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Lebanon History Civil War, 1975 Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Lebanon History Civil War, 1975-1990 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Kawabata, Yasunari, 1889-1972 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PJ7820.A46 A9513 1999".
- catalog title "Dear Mr Kawabata / Rashid al-Daif ; translated by Paul Starkey ; foreword by Margaret Drabble.".
- catalog title "ʻAzīzī al-Sayyid Kawābātā. English".
- catalog type "text".