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Informationen zum Autor Iman Humaydan is the author of three previous novels B as in Beirut, Wild Mulberries, and Other Lives, all published by Interlink. Michelle Hartman is an associate professor of Arabic and francophone literature at McGill University in Montreal. She is the translator of Iman Humaydan’s Wild Mulberries and Other Lives. Klappentext While making a documentary film about the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, Maya Amer stumbles upon a battered leather suitcase that will change her life forever. Inside it she finds letters, photographs, a diary, and an envelope labeled: Letters from Istanbul. The Weight of Paradise is both the story of Maya and her discovery, and also the story of the owner of these papers, Noura Abu Sawwan, a journalist who fled Syria just before the Lebanese civil war to find greater freedom of expression. A multi-voiced, multi-genre narration, it interweaves the stories of these two women and the people who surround them within the fabric of Beirut in the civil war and its immediate aftermath. A love story as well as a story of womens liberation and political freedom, the novel is also the tale of a city and country torn apart by repression, occupation, and war.
