Pierre Jarawan

24 MUST-READ 2022 BOOKS IN TRANSLATION as selected by BOOK RIOT Lebanese German author Jarawan (The Storyteller) movingly evokes life in Lebanon in his affecting and complex latest. This is a gripping, human look at a tragedy that still haunts an entire nation. – Publishers Weekly It's 2011 and the Arab Spring is in full bloom when the discovery of...

Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets, love, and friendship, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what...