Fiction novels with the Lebanese Civil War as a backdrop

For lovers of historical fiction, from romance to adventure to mystery, the Lebanese civil war literature offers aplenty. Authors who have lived the atrocities of the war—or fled it, have drawn from their experiences, their friends and families’ stories, and the many unknowns of the war to reconstruct heartbreaking and heartwarming narratives, to construct alternative realities, and maybe most importantly to express what a troubled population goes through physically and emotionally during an extended period of blind violence.