Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat

Author:Hoda Barakat [Barakat, Hoda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Love;Loss;Strangers;Confessions;Letters;War;Secrets;Powerful;Lebanon;Lebanese;Arab world;Middle East;International Prize for Arabic Fiction;Award winning;Arabic;Booker;Booker International
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2020-12-21T19:46:16+00:00

It was a cold and rainy day – the kind of drizzle that never stops and sends its dampness straight into your bones. I was trying to protect myself from it by pressing my back against the glass front of a supermarket, talking to a young man who was handing out free ad papers to anyone entering or leaving the store. In other words, he was a beggar. I couldn’t help laughing when he began telling me his dreams of travelling to Hollywood, where he would definitely become a big actor, and then from there he would help me out…and so forth. I could tell from his accent that he was from Eastern Europe. I asked him where. ‘Albania,’ he said. ‘Muslim, like you. I’d be willing to bet you’re an Arab.’ There was something about him I liked; or rather, I felt comfortable with him. Maybe it was because he was a beggar living off his own efforts. He wasn’t trying to survive by informing on people or stealing and selling young girls.

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