Passage Au Crepuscule, Paperback Book, By: Rachid El-Daif

Sometimes a recluse, struggling against those who invest his home, sometimes fleeing, seeking his salvation in an improbable passage at dusk, obsessively, in Beirut, a man falls into the labyrinth of nightmare. Such is indeed the vision, almost a hallucination, that Rachid el-Daïf offers us. In a tale haunted by the anguish of mutilation and death, we discover the inner pain of a conflict never truly described, never explicitly circumscribed. Escaping from the political categories as much as from those of the military, this text is, in its very unrealism, a testimony of first force on the civilian experience of the Lebanese crisis.