Disciples Of Passion

"In this brief, enigmatic novel by award-winning Lebanese author Barakat (The Tiller of Waters; The Stone of Laughter), an unnamed Christian narrator tells of his relationship with a Muslim woman during Lebanon's civil war. It's a fragmentary cri de coeur told in retrospect from the confines of a Church-run insane asylum with the menace of war still very present. ... The novel's impassioned, poetic prose (superbly translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth) teems with strange visions, religious diction and imagery, and drifts into discursive riffs on the impossibility of knowing the 'other.'"Barakat, Hoda is the author of 'Disciples Of Passion ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780815608332 and ISBN 0815608330.