Anti Lebanon: A Novel

Anti Lebanon: A Novel 'The criminal and the victim alike return to the scene of the crime...'It is the Arab Spring and the fate of the Christians of the Middle East is uncertain. The many Christians of Lebanon walk a knife edge, their very survival in this ancestral refuge in doubt. When Hezbollah flex their muscles in a takeover of west Beirut, amid the old shell-scarred sandstone villas, the echoing gunfire, a young Christian wandering the emptied streets is entrapped in an act of violence that will awaken monsters from the civil war and beyond.'Anti Lebanon' is a cross-genre political thriller and horror story embedded within recent events, featuring a multiethnic Christian family living out the lingering after-effects of Lebanon's war, as it struggles to deal with its phantoms, its ghosts, and its vampires.'Combining a thriller and a horror story into a single melancholic narrative, Shuker has created a haunting and riveting account of war, loss, and exile.' --'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY' Autor: Carl Shuker Wydawnictwo: Counterpoint Rok wydania: 2013 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 272 Wymiary: 22.8 x 15.2 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781619021150