Author: Jabbour Douaihy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9927101317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
On 16 June 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals the Al-Samaeenis in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbours turn into enemies and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killing or whose lives were forever altered by it. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins, but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him. At the center of the portrait is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre, the father he never knew. With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy reconstructs that fateful June Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge.
June Rain
Author: Jabbour Douaihy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9927101317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
On 16 June 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals the Al-Samaeenis in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbours turn into enemies and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killing or whose lives were forever altered by it. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins, but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him. At the center of the portrait is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre, the father he never knew. With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy reconstructs that fateful June Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9927101317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
On 16 June 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals the Al-Samaeenis in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbours turn into enemies and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killing or whose lives were forever altered by it. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins, but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him. At the center of the portrait is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre, the father he never knew. With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy reconstructs that fateful June Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge.
Proceedings of the Third Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 7-8, 1984
Author: Eugene Shoulders
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Popular Bulletin
Author: Washington Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Crop Production
Physiology of Woody Plants
Author: Paul Kramer
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323142362
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
Physiology of Woody Plants explains how physiological processes are involved in growth of woody plants and how they are affected by the environment, including the mechanisms of the processes themselves. Organized into 17 chapters, this book discusses the role of plant physiology, as well as the form and structure of woody plant. It also explores the nature and periodicity of shoot, cambial, root, and reproductive growth of trees of the temperate and tropical zones. Other topics elucidated are the process of photosynthesis and respiration, the various substances found in woody plants, plant nutrition, and factors affecting plant growth. This book will be valuable as a text to students and teachers and as a reference to investigators and others who desire a better understanding of how woody plants grow.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323142362
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
Physiology of Woody Plants explains how physiological processes are involved in growth of woody plants and how they are affected by the environment, including the mechanisms of the processes themselves. Organized into 17 chapters, this book discusses the role of plant physiology, as well as the form and structure of woody plant. It also explores the nature and periodicity of shoot, cambial, root, and reproductive growth of trees of the temperate and tropical zones. Other topics elucidated are the process of photosynthesis and respiration, the various substances found in woody plants, plant nutrition, and factors affecting plant growth. This book will be valuable as a text to students and teachers and as a reference to investigators and others who desire a better understanding of how woody plants grow.
1975 Florida Area Cumulus Experiment (FACE); Operational Summary
Author: National Hurricane and Experimental Meteorology Laboratory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida Area Cumulus Experiment
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida Area Cumulus Experiment
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Foundations of Indian Agriculture
Author: Hugh Martin Leake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Crop Production
Author: United States. Crop Reporting Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.