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the_history_shelf's review
5.0
You can read my review at Shelf Awareness here:
https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=1054#m18383
https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=1054#m18383
sbnich's review
3.0
"In five seconds: two hundred dead, one hundred and fifty missing, six thousand injured, nine thousand buildings damaged, two hundred thousand homes destroyed, as well as hundreds of historic or heritage buildings and four hospi tals, ten thousand retail stores, workshops, stalls, boutiques, restaurants, cafés, pubs all reduced to rubble, scores of art galleries and studios belonging to painters, sculptors, stylists, designers, architects all swept away. In five seconds."
What was meant to be a diary of the "government's overthrow of the people," morphed into a first-hand account of the explosion in the Port of Beirut in August 2020, plunging a city and country, already at the edges of discord and financial ruin, into complete chaos.
Majdalani, a prominent Lebanese writer, writes in almost Hemingway-esque prose, though it is hard to tell if that is his style or the result of the translation.
Worth a read as a very cursory beginning to further understand the rich, complex, forlorn legacy and history of Lebanon.
What was meant to be a diary of the "government's overthrow of the people," morphed into a first-hand account of the explosion in the Port of Beirut in August 2020, plunging a city and country, already at the edges of discord and financial ruin, into complete chaos.
Majdalani, a prominent Lebanese writer, writes in almost Hemingway-esque prose, though it is hard to tell if that is his style or the result of the translation.
Worth a read as a very cursory beginning to further understand the rich, complex, forlorn legacy and history of Lebanon.
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