The Mehlis Report
Language: English
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- The Mehlis Report
- Author
- Jaber, Rabee
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811220648
- ISBN 13
- 9780811220644
- Item weight
- 0.5 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
The English-language debut of 2012’sInternational Arabic Fiction Prize winner
A complex thriller, The Mehlis Report introduces English readers to a highly talented Arabic writer. When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri is killed by a massive bomb blast, the U.N. appoints German judge Detlev Mehlisto conduct an investigation of the attack ― while explosions continue to rock Beirut. Mehlis’s report is eagerly awaited by the entire Lebanese population.
First we meet Saman Yarid, a middle-aged architect who wanders the tense streets of Beirut and, like everyone else in the city, can’t stop thinking about the pending report. Saman’s sister Josephine, who was kidnapped in 1983,narrates the second part of The Mehlis Report: Josephine is dead, yet exists in a bizarre underworld in the bowels of Beirut where the dead are busy writing their memoirs. Then the ghost of Hariri himself appears…
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About the Author
KAREEM JAMES ABU-ZEID is the award-winning translator of Rabee Jaber’s Confessions and The Mehlis Report, and Dunya Mikhail’s The Iraqi Nights.
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