| Title | : | The Stone of Laughter (Interlink World Fiction) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (134 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566561906 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1998-03-03 |
| Genre | : |
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly This is the story of a person. It is also a story of a population, and of a war. It reads as grotesque fantasy, where traditional assumptions can be fatal, consequences no longer make sense and the most commonplace social act may conceal lethal betrayal. In 14 years of civil war, which left Beirut's glories ravished and its cosmopolitan society devastated, the grotesque becomes mundane. Disoriented amid the chaos, Khalil questions his every thought and impulse as he grasps for an identity, sexuality and teleology-his internal dialogue is the warp of this narrative. Retreating into desperate isolation when the two men he covertly loves are killed, Khalil is paralyzed by guilt and fear. His despair brings illness and a minor epiphany in the hospital, where he awakens, in the book's most impressionistic and fluidly crafted sequence, to the value and beauty of life. Barakat allows Khalil this illumination, a lambent moment of hope, so that she may quickly shatter it.
The most interesting pieces include the extended reminiscences by people who lived and worked closely with the Fords, and especially with Edsel's family. Read it!. The rest of the book is proving to be entirely inscrutable. In 1955 he was 2nd overall, driving with Peter Collins in an Aston Martin DB3S. The rail lines are drawn in various colors so that each stands out from the others. Introduces concepts of thermodynamics, such as first law and clausius-duhem inequality for irreversible processes. His father was a Belgian diplomat and as Paul grew up, the family lived in many of Europe's capitals, no doubt a reason for Paul Frère's renowned air of sophistication and polish. Boy was I wrong.
Not only is this book extremely well written, I learned a lot about the participants that I didn't know, although I've known many of them for years. It has been updated, republished and remains in print to this day as one on the best how-to books about driving a car in competition.
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