The Penguin's Song

by Hassan Daoud, حسن داوود, Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Book Overview

"I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman

"Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegiac novel has finally arrived in English . . . Daoud's novel seems to have inherted its sensibilities--its recursive and dense sentences, its damaged narrator, its poignant obsession with lost time--from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872866238
• ISBN13: 9780872866232
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"