When Magic Failed

From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s—the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, east and west.

De la autorul cartilor The Arab Predicament si Dream Palace of the Arabs vine o frumoasa si bantuitoare memoriala despre cresterea in Liban in anii '50 si '60 - povestea unui tanar sensibil si a unui intelectual in devenire prins intre traditie si modernitate, est si modernitate. vest.