Penguin's Song

"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 arrived in English . . . Daoud''s novel seems to have inherted its sensibilities--its recursive and dense sentences, its damaged narrator, its poigna...