In the early pages of his gorgeous novel Sepharad, Antonio Muñoz Molina writes: ‘Only those of us who have left know what the city used to be like and are aware of how much it has changed it’s the people who stayed who can’t remember, who seeing it day after day have been losing that memory, allowing it to be distorted, although they think they’re the ones who remained faithful, and that we, in a sense, are deserters.’Ĭertainly a beautiful sentence, and a lovely sentiment, but I respectfully yet strenuously disagree. She’ll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is. Kennedy, Yiyun Li and Santiago Roncagliolo on where we think of – if anywhere – when we think of going home.Īs part of Anthony Shadid week, has also published an interview with the author, a travelogue by photographer Michael Robinson-Chavez on his time on assignment in Iraq with Shadid and a guide to Lebanese street food by Annia Ciezadlo.īeirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, tacky, falling apart, ageing, and forever drama-laden. To celebrate, Granta is publishing a series of short meditations by writers including Teju Cole, Rawi Hage, Ha Jin, A.L. This week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone– which tells of the author’s attempts to rebuild his dilapidated family home in Marjayoun, Lebanon and in turn of a search for identity in a restless Middle East – was published in the UK.
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