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020			_a9781905559015
100			_aSamir El-Youssef _9798
245		4	_aThe Illusion of Return _b: A novel by Samir El-Youssef _c/ Samir El-Youssef
260			_aLondon; _bHalban Publishers; _c2007
300			_a160p; _c21x14cm
520			_aAfter 17 years, the narrator and his friend, Ali, meet at Heathrow and slowly remember their past in Lebanon. Their memories are concentrated on one fatal night when they were with two other friends for the last time, before tragedy struck. But for the narrator, a personal tragedy had occurred much earlier¿ Both the narrator and Ali are Palestinians born in Lebanon. Like many others, they had to leave in the mid-1980s, when it became a battleground for local armies - Ali to America, the narrator to London. But this is not just a story about suffering, it is also about absurd politics and violence - about a world where tragedy and comedy co-exist. A poignant story that lingers long after one has finished it.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aPalestine _9515
650			_aPN3311-3503 Literature (General)- Prose. Prose Fiction _9799
942			_cBK
999			_c3407 _d3407