Guard of the Dead
A Novel
Published on 15. April 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-977-416-910-6 (ISBN)
Description
Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue by night, stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war, he fled his village for Beirut and, lost in the big city, joined a political party to survive. When he is kidnapped from the hospital, he knows he has not escaped his past and the many crimes he witnessed. But what or who is still chasing him?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cairo
Egypt
Publishing group
The American University in Cairo Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-977-416-910-6 (9789774169106)
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George Yaraq is 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. He lives in Beirut.
Raphael Cohen is a literary translator based in Cairo.
Raphael Cohen is a literary translator based in Cairo.