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Confessions / Rabee Jaber ; translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.
- Title
- Confessions / Rabee Jaber ; translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.
- Author
- Jābir, Rabīʻ
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Books, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ7840.A289 I8513 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 120 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hospital, adopted by one of the assassins, and raised in a new family. "My father used to kidnap and kill people..." begins this haunting tale of a child who was raised by the murderer of his real family. The narrator of Confessions doesn't shy away from the horrible truth of his murderous father-instead he confronts his troubled upbringing and seeks to understand the distortions and complexities of his memories, his war-torn country, and the quiet war that rages inside of him.
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 1329
- Uniform Title
- Iʻtirāfāt. English
- New Directions paperbook 1329.
- Alternative Title
- Iʻtirāfāt.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Novels
- Fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780811220675
- 0811220672
- LCCN
- ^^2015045958
- OCLC
- 911364401
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library