Beirut 2020: Diary Of The Collapse
Other Press
ISBN13:
9781635421781
$14.92
World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year PopMatters: Best Book of the Year Told in elegant, evocative prose, a devastating and necessary testament to the August explosion that thoughtfully examines the crises that preceded it and its aftermath. At the start of the summer of 2020, in a Lebanon ruined by economic crisis and political corruption, in an exhausted Beirut still rising up for true democracy while the world was paralyzed by the coronavirus, Charif Majdalani set about writing a journal. He intended to bear witness to this terrible, confusing time, and perhaps endure it by putting it into words. Using small, everyday interactionswith fellow restaurant patrons, repairmen, the father of his wifes patient, a young Syrian refugeeas openings to address larger systemic problems, he explains how events in Lebanons recent history led to this point. Then, on August 4, the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut devastated the city and the country. Majdalanis chronicle suddenly became a record of the catastrophe, which left more than two hundred dead and thousands injured, and the massive public outcry that followed. In the midst of the senseless chaos and grief, however, he continues to find cause for hope in the kindness and resilience of those determined to stay and rebuild.
- | Author: Charif Majdalani
- | Publisher: Other Press
- | Publication Date: 3-Aug-21
- | Number of Pages: 192 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1635421780
- | ISBN-13: 9781635421781
- Author:
- Charif Majdalani
- Publisher:
- Other Press
- Publication Date:
- 3-Aug-21
- Number of pages:
- 192 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1635421780
- ISBN-13:
- 9781635421781