Hachette Antoine/Novel

Samia glanced at her watch: half past two. Strange, it wasn't like Nabil to be late without telling her. She had barely finished her thought when the doorbell rang. She rushed to the door. It was Suha. "Did Aunt Aziza bring you?" Samia asked,...

On the first Thursday of 1981, a large shell accidentally struck Kevork's house, causing a fire that consumed its entire contents. Inside the dilapidated house, which he returned to inspect days later, Kevork realized he had lost everything. He had lost all his possessions:...

Balqis, Youssef, Walid, Ghassan. Four characters, four faces. Four questions about meaning. And four yellow ones trying to confront the muscle of existence. Youssef the poet escapes his existence into a perfected image, a weapon he doesn't intend. Walid the rebel fights to escape...

Shams, an elderly artist, lost his painting hand in the 2005 bombing that targeted the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killing him. As a child, he lived in Cuba. As a teenager, he lived with his mother in her native Lebanon,...

What kind of ending is this for a novel searching for a beginning? This is where this novel should have started, but the beginning was delayed more than once, and the ending came more than once. It is a novel about a woman of...

The Secret Life of Writers Guillaume Musso In 1999, three months after the ineffectual radio, novelist Nathan Fowles announced his retirement and sought refuge on the chosen Belgian island of Beaumont, which he had researched for tranquility.In the autumn of 2018, journalist Mathilde Monney...

America entered Iraq. The war began. Saddam Hussein went into hiding, orchestrating events behind the scenes. But he would suddenly appear in the middle of the night at a dentist's office, complaining of a toothache. From the window overlooking Firdos Square, he would witness...

He is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, in a building that is no longer ordinary, having been occupied by the military and transformed into a security site. His experience of this building unfolds in a series of scenes, a dark comedy. Faced...

In the heart of a country engulfed in war and violence, a small group wages its own private war. The setting: a psychiatric hospital. The time: a lull between two battles. The protagonists: a film crew, a group of corrupt individuals, a criminal on...

Some have owned their lives since birth. A stable, resilient life, in homes where tranquility dwells. And some inhabit houses of paper, fragile, unstable, uprooted by a breeze. Yasmina was stripped bare by the tattered remnants of her story when the storm came. She...

In war, identities are lost. You may acquire a new identity by decision, or an identity may be imposed on you because of a mere mistake. She may be a veiled woman burdened by the authority of a patriarchal husband, strict religious control, and...

In this new novel, a satirical tale set against the backdrop of a love story, a visiting Spanish lecturer delves deeply into the prestigious university and its community. A sense of alienation separates him from his new surroundings. A sense of unease prevents him...

Reham informed me, after arriving in the town, in a garbled phone call, that she had found the remains of the marble headstone bearing her father's name, but that she had not yet located the official burial site. She said she would not return...

I was born into a Shakespearean family, with a father who served the king for forty years and a brother banished to one of his prisons. Imagine a terrifying, oppressive palace where the most loyal are punished, and where jealousy reigns supreme. His Highness...

I recall, with a sense of bewilderment, what Abdel-Azim Shodak, the lame, nearly deaf mechanic, did. He was once found inside the ward, his skin reeking of grease and old oils. He wore thin-lensed reading glasses, followed everywhere, and a heavy medical bandage around...

My mother, lying on her bed, told me that she had been a stray cat forty years ago. She looked at me, and I sat with her. She added that she was perfectly suited to this day; and she remained on the ice she...

I know, Maria, that there's a child inside you, and that children fear bullets and cherish their mothers' breasts. But I know you have no hope but a few thousand unarmed souls to face all this sorrow. You love roses, but my garden no...

While I was still pondering this oft-repeated saying, "No soul knows in what land it will die," I was lost in the mystery of the plot of land where Abu Saad was buried. Where was it? Would it bear a towering headstone, as is...

Not much happens in Rabih Alameddine's new novel. There's no engaging plot, no whirlpools of characters getting lost, no story that captivates the reader. Literature itself is what unfolds in this novel. Literature imbued with a whole life, a ghost haunting a woman who...

Life and death. Victory and defeat. Hope and despair. In "Tala's Story," Henry, a renowned New York writer, tries to cope with his mother's sudden departure and the failure of his latest novel. His mother, whose life was filled with successes, is dead and...