Lebanon

The Weight of Paradise
by Iman Humaydan

This absorbing story of friendship – mirrored in the close collaboration between author and translator – is set against a background of extraordinary hostility. A powerful book that examines how history does and does not get repeated, and how we can understand and look at it in different ways.

Translated by Michelle Hartman
lnterlink Books, 2016
ISBN 9781566560559