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Dedication: لذكرى يوسف الخال [In the memory of Youssef El-Khal]
Contents
* Contents derived from the Sydney,New South Wales,:Smilley Business Communications,1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Monthir's dream came true and he's now a man of power and a popular leader. The people in the town are calling out his name and carrying him on their shoulders, but all that was before he hears his mum trying to wake him up to go to work.
While the narrator is waiting for his turn at the post office to send a letter for peace to Beirut, he's enjoying telling an old woman about the beauty of Lebanon, the resistance of its people and the richness of its culture.
The narrator is writing a letter to his uncle, trying to convince him to send his children (the narrator's cousins), out of Lebanon as he has been worried about them after his last visit to Beirut.
The narrator is accused of terrorism because of his ethnic background. Surprisingly, in prison, he 's having a conversation with one of his ancestors, Cadmus, a Phoenician prince who taught the Greeks the alphabet.
