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245 10 a| Beirut 2020 :b| diary of the collapse /c| Charif Majdalani ; translated from the French by Ruth Diver.;

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Beirut 2020 : diary of the collapse / Charif Majdalani ; translated from the French by Ruth Diver.

Author/creator	Majdalani, Charif, 1960- author.
Other author	Diver, Ruth, translator.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY : Other Press, [2021]
Description	xiv, 168 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects	Majdalani, Charif, 1960---Diaries. Authors, Lebanese--21st century. --Diaries. Industrial accidents--Lebanon. --Beirut. --History. --21st century. Lebanon--History. --21st century.

Uniform title	Beyrouth 2020. English
Abstract	"Told in elegant, evocative prose, a devastating and necessary testament to the August explosion that thoughtfully examines the crises that preceded it and its aftermath. At the start of the summer of 2020, in a Lebanon ruined by economic crisis and political corruption, in an exhausted Beirut still rising up for true democracy while the world was paralyzed by the coronavirus, Charif Majdalani set about writing a journal. He intended to bear witness to this terrible, confusing time, and perhaps endure it by putting it into words. Using small, everyday interactions-with fellow restaurant patrons, repairmen, the father of his wife's patient, a young Syrian refugee-as openings to address larger systemic problems, he explains how events in Lebanon's recent history led to this point. Then, on August 4, the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut devastated the city and the country. Majdalani's chronicle suddenly became a record of the catastrophe, which left more than two hundred dead and thousands injured, and the massive public outcry that followed. In the midst of the senseless chaos and grief, however, he continues to find cause for hope in the kindness and resilience of those determined to stay and rebuild"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	Originally published in French as Beyrouth 2020: Journal d'un effondrement in 2020 by Actes Sud, Arles, France--Title page verso.
Issued in other form	Online version: Majdalani, Charif, 1960- Beirut 2020: diary of the collapse New York : Other Press, 2021 9781635421798
Genre/form	Diaries.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2021008274
ISBN	9781635421781 paperback
ISBN	1635421780 paperback
ISBN	electronic book
Stock number	Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975

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