Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish with Ibrahim Muhawi (Translator)

182 pages paperback 1986

9 editions

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible si...

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