Dominique EddÃ©,Ros Schwartz
Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique EddÃ©â€™s ,Kite, defies categorization.Â Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late â€™80s, it is at once a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately tragic, relationship between Mali and Farid and the simultaneous decline of Egyptian-Lebanese society. Densely populated with myriad characters, ,Kite, chronicles the casualties of social conventions, religious divisions and cultural clichÃ©s. The differences between East and West are central to the tension of EddÃ©â€™s book and share the responsibility for an unavoidable impasse between the lovers. This fragmented narrativeâ€”written in several voices that reflect the fragmented lives of those caught up in the madness of warâ€”calls into question an entire way of living and thinking.Â In lyrical, elegant, original, and often startling prose, EddÃ© weaves together multiple strandsâ€”meditating on the nature of language, investigating the concept of the novel, and powerfully depicting the experience of being blind. Deftly evoking the intellectual scene of Beirut in the â€™60s, Lebanonâ€™s mountainscapes, and the urban settings of Cairo, Paris, and London, ,Kite, probes memory with a curious mix of irony and melancholy, ending up in a place beyond hope and despair.
Cultural,Lebanon
Kite