The 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 poignant obsession with lost time—from Remembrance of Things Past or Notes From the Underground. . . . Thi...