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Sarah Nour El‑Din, red‑haired and fiercely independent, grew up in a hybrid family marked by divorce, remarriage, and the violence of Beirut during wartime. Named after the iconic actress Sarah Bernhardt, she channels that theatrical spirit into an autobiographical narrative that oscillates between memoir and novel. Accused of hiring members of Hezbollah to sabotage competitors, her stepmother’s entrepreneurial schemes, her mother’s suicide, and her sister’s madness, Sarah endures a life of darkness and daring. In exile in the United States she seeks fragile peace, drawing strength from an enduring friendship, a son, sensual pleasures, and the company of cats, all while determined to tell her story with sly humor and dark realism.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Rabih Alameddine
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