Anti Lebanon (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Carl Shuker | knygos.lt

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It is Arab Spring and the fate of the Christians of the Middle East is uncertain. The many Christians of Lebanon are walking a knife-edge, their very survival in their ancestral refuge in doubt, as the Lebanese government becomes Hezbollah-dominated, while Syria convulses with warring religious factions. "Anti Lebanon" is a cross-genre political thriller and horror story embedded within these recent events, featuring a multiethnic Christian family living out the lingering after-effects of Lebanon's civil war as it struggles to deal with its phantoms, its ghosts, and its vampires.
Leon Elias is a young and impoverished Lebanese man whose older sister had joined a Christian militia and has been killed. He becomes caught up in the recent little war in Beirut, when the ShiOCOa resistance/militia Hezbollah takes over most of the city. In this milieu?the emptied streets of Christian east Beirut, the old shell-scarred sandstone villas, the echoing gunfire?he becomes involved, only partly by choice, in the theft of a seriously valuable piece of artisanal jewelry, and is bitten?like a vampire?by its Armenian maker.
Events take a ghostly and mysterious turn as the factions jostling for power in Beirut begin to align against him and his family, and he is forced to flee the sullied beauty of that wonderful and pitiful country, in this story of love and loss, of the civil war and the "Arabization" of the ?Switzerland of the Middle East, OCO and of contemporary vampires?beings addicted to violence, lies, and baser primal drives.