Description
In the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, a journalist is drawn into the unsettling case of a civil servant found dead in a garbage dump—only to discover that the city’s refuse holds more than secrets. Through the intertwined lives of five Beirutis, the investigation becomes a tender, devastating portrait of how violence seeps into ordinary days, reshaping identities, loyalties, and memory. With empathy and lyrical intensity, Elias Khoury assembles a mosaic of voices that confronts the war’s moral fractures and the lingering cost borne by civilians. Blending investigative momentum with intimate storytelling, this novel explores themes of survival, complicity, and the masks people wear to endure what they cannot forget.
Available Editions
paperback
MacLehose Press
Published Feb 1, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 9780857052124
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Translation
From: ara
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for White Masks by Elias Khoury.