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This book was originally published in Beirut in 1981. It is as relevant today as it was then. It is an excellent portrayal of the experience of Lebanese immigrants to Canada (a very different experience, it seemed to me, from that of the Lebanese who have come to the US). More than anything, though, it is the story of Radwan, an elderly Lebanese villager who chooses to return to war-torn Lebanon after visiting his grown (and very successful) children in Canada, and the disastrous consequences of
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