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Young Adam Awad lives in a remote village in the Lebanese countryside, where his uncle maintains there are no "vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North, no history of arms and bloodshed". Adam wants to restore his father's olive press and live a peaceful life, but it is 1976 and civil war is getting closer every day.

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Better than any political analysis, this remarkable novel, set in a Lebanese mountain village, conveys with razor-sharp accuracy the sights, sounds, tastes and tragic dilemmas of Lebanon's fratricidal civil war. A must read for anyone who wants to understand Lebanon's warring tribes and grasp what makes this small country the astonishingly vital and diverse place it is. Patrick Seale

The Myrtle Tree A Novel of Love and Dreams in

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      Publisher: Banipal Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/01/2007
      ISBN13: 9780954966645, 978-0954966645
      ISBN10: 0954966643

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Young Adam Awad lives in a remote village in the Lebanese countryside, where his uncle maintains there are no "vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North, no history of arms and bloodshed". Adam wants to restore his father's olive press and live a peaceful life, but it is 1976 and civil war is getting closer every day.

      Trade Review
      Better than any political analysis, this remarkable novel, set in a Lebanese mountain village, conveys with razor-sharp accuracy the sights, sounds, tastes and tragic dilemmas of Lebanon's fratricidal civil war. A must read for anyone who wants to understand Lebanon's warring tribes and grasp what makes this small country the astonishingly vital and diverse place it is. Patrick Seale

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