Al-Shaykh, Hanan. The story of zahra, London : Quartet Books, 1991.
This Lebanese author recounts an unsettling story of sexuality and violence in war-torn Beirut and West Africa. It is the story of a young woman of the Shia community in South Lebanon, who is haunted by dark memories of deception and abuse in her early years. Zahra is sent off to West Africa to live with her uncle. After an unsuccessful marriage there, she returns to a Beirut which is devastated by civil war, explosions, shooting and death. As the war intensifies, Zahra falls in love for the first time with a sniper and wants a normal life, but it is too late and she becomes the victim of the city’s mindless violence, personified by the sniper.
This novel is a suspenseful story with a plot that has lots of twists and turns.
This Lebanese author recounts an unsettling story of sexuality and violence in war-torn Beirut and West Africa. It is the story of a young woman of the Shia community in South Lebanon, who is haunted by dark memories of deception and abuse in her early years. Zahra is sent off to West Africa to live with her uncle. After an unsuccessful marriage there, she returns to a Beirut which is devastated by civil war, explosions, shooting and death. As the war intensifies, Zahra falls in love for the first time with a sniper and wants a normal life, but it is too late and she becomes the victim of the city’s mindless violence, personified by the sniper.
This novel is a suspenseful story with a plot that has lots of twists and turns.
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