Douaihy offers a highly original portrait, sometimes poignant and sometimes sarcastic

(Elena Loewenthal Tutto Libri, La Stampa, Italy)

Jabbour Douaihy builds a powerful and complex novel with several voices, artfully weaving childhood memories and an adult’s investigation

(David Fontaine Canard enchaîné, France)

An exciting, successful, literary novel (Der Freitag)

One of Lebanon’s leading writers recreates a village forever transformed by the massacre of one Christian community by another, and its impact on a mother and her long-estranged son