Hassan Daoud

• Apr-2017
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In a small Lebanese village a disillusioned imam, diagnosed with terminal cancer, must face his demons. Having consented to an arranged marriage, he has found himself in a loveless union and lusts after another. To please his family, he took up the r...

• Dec-2014
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"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 a...

• Mar-2009
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"Daoud's writing is elegant, laconic and often very funny." -- The Times (London)

In a village in Lebanon, an old man -- a widower, who feels abandoned by his grown-up children -- prepares for his final journey. But right to the end he remai...

• Apr-2008
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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 ...

• Jun-2002
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Daoud refuses to engage with the rhetoric of heroism and tragedy that has tempted many writers on the Lebanese Civil War. Instead, he focuses on a single apartment building in Beirut, evoking with great restraint and economy the pattern of the ordina...