Disciples Of Passion

Novelist and short-story writer Barakat left her native Lebanon in 1989, during the civil war, and has lived in Paris since. This novel chronicles that civil war through the troubled and sometimes quasi-hallucinatory mind of a young man who has experienced kidnappings, hostage exchange, and hospital internment. Ahl al-Hawa was published in 1993 by Dar al-Nahar, Beirut, and is the second of Barakat's novels Booth (comparative and world literature, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) has translated. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)