The penguin's song

"I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."-Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman "Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegiac novel has finally arrived in English . . . Daoud's novel seems to have inherted its sensibilities-its recursive and dense sentences, its damaged narrator, its poignant obsession with lost time-from Remembrance of T...