A House at the Edge of Tears
by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Marilyn Hacker
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- Format: paperback, 111 pages
- Language: english
- Publisher: Graywolf Press
- Author: Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Marilyn Hacker
- ISBN: 9781555974343 (1555974341)
- Release date: November 1, 2005
- Genres: lebanon
About The Book
In the city of Beirut, five shabby dwellings circle a courtyard with a pomegranate tree weeping blood red fruit. The residents hear screams in the night as a boy is tossed out into the street by his father — a punishment for masturbating in his sleep. A crime not worthy of the punishment: the neighbors gossip and decide that he must have tried to rape his sisters. “Small-boned with long, silky lashes, no one but the devil could camouflage evil so seductively.” The poems he writes are perhaps an even greater crime to his father, but ultimately a gift to his eldest sister, who narrates their story with a combination of brutal truth and stunning prose. As her brother becomes more and more lost to his family and to himself, we also learn of a Contessa who teaches tango, a family who spends every Sunday in search of buried treasure, and the miracle of a weeping Madonna statue that cries when human tears run dry.
In the harrowing and mesmerizing novel A House at the Edge of Tears, celebrated novelist and poet, Khoury-Ghata, presents the disintegration of a family and a country — both ruled by a fury fueled by fear.
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