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First UK edition. Author’s first novel. In very good+ condition for its age. The only faults being age tanning to pages making them very brown but still eminently readable and a very minor bump to head and tail of book spine. Price still on dustjacket. SYNOPSIS: “The Lebanon, both one of the most beautiful countries on earth and the place where possibly the bloodiest civil war this century has been waged: this is the unlikely setting for a love story. The lovers are a young man, Samir Khoury, who is Lebanese, self-educated, poor: and Maira Brisden, a brilliant English scientist who has invented a new theory of time. Samir shows one face of Beirut, that of a boy who somehow breaks free of a violent past. Khaled Sulman, a Muslim extremist who emerges as one of the most ruthless and single-mindedly violent fundamentalist leaders of the time, presents the other face. When Khaled was born, it could have been quite different: he could have been a prophet for out time, and it was a random tilt of the dice that decreed otherwise. But perhaps the arrow of time that Maira explores in her new theory is in fact a cycle – and out of the pyre a new blueprint will emerge” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH