Hardcover, 263 pages
English language
Published June 23, 1993 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Hardcover, 263 pages
English language
Published June 23, 1993 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Set in Damascus in 1959 and told as a collection of stories, this novel recalls memories of the ancient past and past glories of Syria as they fade in the face of modernism.