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July 2013
On Sale: June 27, 2013
218 pages
ISBN: 0811220648
EAN: 9780811220644
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The English-language debut of 2012βs International Arabic Fiction Prize winner A complex thriller, The Mehlis Report introduces English readers to a highly talented Arabic writer. When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri is killed by a massive bomb blast, the U.N. appoints German judge Detlev Mehlisto conduct an investigation of the attack β while explosions continue to rock Beirut. Mehlisβs report is eagerly awaited by the entire Lebanese population. First we meet Saman Yarid, a middle-aged architect who wanders the tense streets of Beirut and, like everyone else in the city, canβt stop thinking about the pending report. Samanβs sister Josephine, who was kidnapped in 1983,narrates the second part of The Mehlis Report: Josephine is dead, yet exists in a bizarre underworld in the bowels of Beirut where the dead are busy writing their memoirs. Then the ghost of Hariri himself appearsβ¦
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