Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish with Ibrahim Muhawi (Translator)

182 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible si...

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reflective 77%
emotional 66%
challenging 44%
dark 44%
sad 33%
informative 11%
tense 11%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

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