The Stone of Laughter (Interlink World Fiction)

About this book

The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man. It is a bold and radical novel full of black humor and cynical observations about life in war-torn Beirut. Written sensitively and without a trace of sentimentality or political propaganda The Stone of Laughter shook the Arab readers preconceptions about womens writing and questioned the necessity of political affiliation for Arab authors.