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Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir (2009)

by Zena el Khalil(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0863564151 (ISBN13: 9780863564154)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Saqi

review 1: When my creative writing teacher assigned this book, the first thing that came to my mind was Beirut I Love You? Really? I thought it must be a cheesy story about a polished version of Beirut.I finished this book in less than two days. It was very hard to let it down, and I'm definitely going to read it again. It was so raw and so straightforward. It wasn't polished. It was the most honest depiction of Beirut I have ever come across. I was very impressed. It made me look at things from a different perspective."I walked past all the newspapers with pictures of blown-up body parts, and fashion magazines with pictures of blown-up body parts."
review 2: Zena gets a couple stars because this book was a gift from my best friend who is Lebanese-American and Zena's ho... morenesty and her descriptions of friendship with Lebanese ladies made me smile and think of my own friend. But I just didn't feel like this memoir was written for an audience. That is to say, this work reads more like a private diary than an edited nonfiction piece meant for strangers to enjoy. There are just too many loose ends. less

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