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Guard of the Dead

- A Novel

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. Shortlisted for the "Arabic booker" prize, a mystery, anti-war novel set in the time of the Lebanese civil war and its aftermath. Aber, a young man who fled his village to live and work in a Beirut hospital is haunted by his past as a sniper during the Lebanon Civil War. He scrapes by a living plucking gold teeth from the dead bodies in the morgue in order to sell them for cash. The story takes on the dark notes of a thriller when he is kidnapped from the hospital. He has no idea who the perpetrators are and can only search through his past for clues. . By George Yaraq, a Lebanese novelist and journalist, born in 1958. He has worked as an editor and writer for several Lebanese newspapers, magazines and publishers, and his first novel, Night, was published in 2013.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9789774169106
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 276
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. april 2019
  • Størrelse:
  • 204x133x23 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 276 g.
  • BLACK WEEK
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 13. december 2024
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. Shortlisted for the "Arabic booker" prize, a mystery, anti-war novel set in the time of the Lebanese civil war and its aftermath. Aber, a young man who fled his village to live and work in a Beirut hospital is haunted by his past as a sniper during the Lebanon Civil War. He scrapes by a living plucking gold teeth from the dead bodies in the morgue in order to sell them for cash. The story takes on the dark notes of a thriller when he is kidnapped from the hospital. He has no idea who the perpetrators are and can only search through his past for clues. . By George Yaraq, a Lebanese novelist and journalist, born in 1958. He has worked as an editor and writer for several Lebanese newspapers, magazines and publishers, and his first novel, Night, was published in 2013.

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