Beirut - Barrack Zailaa Rima

Barrack Zailaa Rima's Celebrated Graphic Novel Trilogy, Gathered Together And Available In English For The First Time.beirut Is An Intimate And Poetic Look At A Beloved City That Is At Once Autobiographical, Documentary, And Fantastic In Nature. In Rimas Hands, Beirut Is A Labyrinth Of Alleyways And Stories, A Theater Teeming With Revolts, And A Cenotaph To Buried Memories. With Rima And Her Family Serving As Our Guides, And Through Chance Encounters With Incongruous Figures (a Librarian, A Garbage Collector-or The City's Last Storyteller), We Discover A City That Longs For Its Golden Age Even As It Is Transformed By Neoliberal Forces In The Aftermath Of The Civil Waran Evolution Whose Future Remains Uncertain.dreamlike, Tender, And Ever-attentive To The Beauty Of The Line, Beirut Offers A Glimpse Into Lebanon's Past And Present, Which Must Be Pieced Together To Form A Whole.