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He studied Arabic literature at university.
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No Road to Paradise: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
(When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diag...)
When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diagnosed with cancer, the illness he fears and has expected for years, he takes the radical decision to abandon the life he inherited from his father. He was persuaded to wear the robe and turban in his youth to preserve the family tradition and entered into an arranged marriage. While his grandfather and father were once powerful imams, he displays no interest in the mosque. The wife, for whom he feels no affection, attends to her chores and nurses his father, now sick and bedridden, in his house. Though he worries about his two sons, who were born deaf and mute, he takes no measures to secure a special education for them.
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The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine by Daoud, Hassan ( Author ) Apr-2008 Paperback
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The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine
( It’s bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist s...)
It’s bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist spends his days in his father and uncle’s bakery, admiring the female customers, observing the many colorful characters, and listening in on fascinating grown-up conversations about everything from jaundice to the occult. The rest of the time he’s off with his friends, learning to smoke and spying on women. For the men in the bakery, life is starkly different. Working endless shifts in the furious heat of the old bread oven, they fantasize about escape. Mohammed sings all day long in his beautiful tenor voice, while others lean exhausted on sacks of fl our and dream of becoming wrestlers. When his father acquires the revolutionary new bread-making machine, the workers struggle to adapt to the changed conditions, and one by one their dreams fade into oblivion. A baker was a baker, not what the government deemed he should be; his messy clothes reflected the messy business of manual labour. The bakery itself reflected this too, with its marble step worn thin from years of customer’s feet. Hassan Daoud is chief editor of Nawafez, the cultural supplement for Al Mustaqbal in Beirut. His novels include The House of Mathilde and The Penguin’s Song. He lives and works in Beirut.
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BY Daoud, Hassan ( Author ) { The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine By Daoud, Hassan ( Author ) Apr - 01- 2008 ( Paperback ) }
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House of Mathilde
(Set in an apartment building in Beirut, this novel evokes...)
Set in an apartment building in Beirut, this novel evokes the pattern of the ordinary lives of its Muslim and Christian tenants as society disintegrates around them. The domestic events that shape the novel are shadowed by the theme of human survival in the face of brutal civil war.
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Hassan Daoud
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Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family. During the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975, he worked as a journalist, a profession he has pursued ever since. He served as a correspondent for al-Hayat for 11 years.
At present he edits Nawafez, the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper al-Mustaqbal.
Daoud has published eight novels and two volumes of short stories. As of 2011, four of the novels have been translated into English.
Daoud has also been translated into French and German (by Hartmut Faehndrich). His work has appeared in Banipal magazine.
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The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine
( It’s bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist s...)
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No Road to Paradise: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
(When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diag...)
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House of Mathilde
(Set in an apartment building in Beirut, this novel evokes...)
- BY Daoud, Hassan ( Author ) { The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine By Daoud, Hassan ( Author ) Apr - 01- 2008 ( Paperback ) }
- The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine by Daoud, Hassan ( Author ) Apr-2008 Paperback
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The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine
