商品簡介
A middle-aged imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon, diagnosed with cancer, contemplates the illness he fears and has expected for years. He inherited his father's way of life and was persuaded to wear the robe and turban in his youth to preserve the family tradition and was forced into an arranged marriage. He displays no interest in the mosque where his grandfather and father were once powerful imams. The wife, for whom he feels no affection, attends to her chores and nurses his father, now sick and bedridden, in his house. Though he worries about his two sons, who were born deaf and mute, he takes no measures to secure a special education for them. After his surgery, he discovers a sense of further isolation, lethargy, and failure. When he suspects the recurrence of cancer, he resolves to abandon his robe and turban.
作者簡介
Hassan Daoud, born in Beirut in 1950, holds a master's degree in Arabic literature and has taught creative writing at the Lebanese American University. He is the editorial director of al-Mudun news website and is on the editorial board of the quarterly magazine Kalamon. He is the author of three short story collections and ten novels. No Road to Paradise was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2015.
