(MOBI) The Stone of Laughter by Hoda Barakat

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The Stone of Laughter
by Hoda Barakat, Sophie Bennett

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• Release date: April 1, 1995
• ISBN: 9781566561907 (1566561906)
• Language: english
• Author: Hoda Barakat, Sophie Bennett
• Genres: fiction, lgbt, lebanon, novels, queer, gay, literature
• Format: paperback, 210 pages
• Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group

About The Book

The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man. It is a bold and radical novel, full of black humor and cynical observations about life in war-torn Beirut. In 1990, when it first appeared in Arabic, it was hailed by critics throughout the Arab world as the best novel set against the background of the Lebanese civil war.

The fractured narrative is woven around Khalil, a gay man who tried to avoid ideological or military affiliations as he finds himself confronted with the collapse of his civil society. His only contact with the world at large is through his friends at a newspaper, for whom falling bombs meant great stories rather than tragedy and destruction. Khalil struggles to keep himself away from the war but is inevitably drawn in as he realizes that in a city of war, no one can remain neutral.

Written sensitively, and without a trace of sentimentality or political propaganda, The Stone of Laughter shook the Arab readers’ preconceptions about women’s writing and questioned the necessity of political affiliation for Arab authors.

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