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عربي

Guard of the Dead

Guard of the Dead

George Yarak (Author)

Raphael Cohen (Translator)

Fiction

Edition published in 2019 in English language
Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue, stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war, he fled his village for Beirut and, lost in the big city, joined a political party to survive. When he is kidnapped from the hospital, he knows he has not escaped his past and the many crimes he witnessed. But what or who is still chasing him?George Yarak’s gripping mystery novel captures the tragi-comic disorder of war with a dark sense of irony.

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