Alexandre Najjar was born in Lebanon in 1967, and is considered one of the best Lebanese novelists of his generation. He is a lawyer and a literary critic, and lives in Paris and Beirut.
William Boyd writes "A marvellously affecting memoir of the war in Lebanon: perfectly pitched and intensely evocative, and all the more powerful from being seen through the eyes of a child."
In our memoirs category, we also recommend For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri
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