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As Though She Were Sleeping - Khoury, Elias, and Booth, Marilyn (Translated by)
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Beirut in the 1930s: a young woman has the gift of seeing the past in her dreams, and she can also predict the future. Over the course of three nights, Milia recalls her love affair with Mansour, between Beirut and Nazareth, and dreams of episodes in the lives of her family: of a grandmother who regains her virginity after the birth of her son; of the bizarre death of an uncle, who accidentally hangs himself by a church-bell rope; of her relationship with her mother. Dreams are a way to escape all forms of oppression, ...

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As Though She Were Sleeping 2012, Archipelago Books

ISBN-13: 9781935744023

Hardcover

As Though She Were Sleeping 2012, MacLehose Press, London

ISBN-13: 9780857050533

Mass-market paperback

As Though She Were Sleeping 2011, MacLehose Press, London

ISBN-13: 9780857050519

Hardcover

As Though She Were Sleeping 2011, MacLehose Press, London

ISBN-13: 9780857050526

Paperback