First published in 2015 by
Interlink Books
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Text copyright © Alexandra Chreiteh, 2015
English translation © Michelle Hartman, 2015
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This is a work of pure fiction, and any resemblance between the characters and real people is unintended and purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shuraytih, Aliksandra.
[‘Ali wa-ummuhu al-Rusiyah. English]
Ali and his Russian mother / by Alexandra Chreiteh ; translated from the
Arabic by Michelle Hartman.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-56656-092-4
I. Hartman, Michelle, translator. II. Title.
PJ7962.H74A4513 2015
892.7’37--dc23
2015014302
Cover photo by Hiltrud Schulz
Printed and bound in the United States of America
The 2006 war in Lebanon began on July 12th and lasted until September 8th of that year. Israel’s airstrikes devastated much of the country’s infrastructure, targeting especially the South of the country and Beirut’s southern suburbs, including roads and bridges. The July War displaced over a million Lebanese—a quarter of the population—leaving nearly 1,200 people dead and 4,400 wounded, mainly civilians. For many young Lebanese, it was their first experience of a large-scale war, echoing their families’ experiences during the fifteen-year civil war that ended in 1990.
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