Beirut Nightmares

Description

To the printers who typed this novel while Beirut’s skies rained missiles and bombs, and to the unknown toilers who make history, Ghada al-Samhat dedicated her novel “Beirut Nightmares,” which she began writing in November 1975 and completed on February 27, 1976. In this 197th novel, “Beirut Nightmares,” the author captures the atmosphere of Beirut at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. She also observes the conditions of intellectuals, politicians, and ordinary people, where the stench of gunpowder and corruption permeates the air, as political, financial, and monopolistic depravity mingles with sexual depravity in a crucible of human decay. The novel delves into the folds and corners of the daily lives of ordinary individuals, caught up in the chaos of events, seemingly oblivious to the fate of their entire nation.

The novel chronicles a turbulent period in which civil war tore apart human relationships that lacked any real foundation, as fires consumed everything. The city that once danced to the rhythm of falling shells and missiles.