Where Martyrs Rise Snowflakes Don't Fall

by Albert Jabara

Overview

A novel blend of war, journalism, and poetry rare in style and meticulously crafted, love episodes pop up startlingly, it laces the heart with a breeze of oxygen. Even though the lines bleed, and ache the chest and soul, the brain slowly absorbs thoughts like a favourite meal. Grief, anger, and the world's shame dominate the novel, but not short of roses, flowers, love stories and wedding bells.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369252031
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/17/2023
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Albert M. Jabara was born in Lebanon on August 17, 1947, in a village directly opposite Mount Haramoon. He moved to Canada and held his first job at age 13 to support himself, his mother, and younger brother and sister. Attended schools intermittently and believes self-education can produce equal results for any institution if will and power are applied.

Training himself, he became reasonably read. A small Ottawa publisher published his first poetry collection in 1967 and published three more collections in the following ten years. For years, he served as a freelance journalist for Arab News, Aljazeera Net, Orient News and other publications. He remotely covered the invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq and the 1999 Gulf War, and all the Israeli invasions of Gaza and Lebanon.

Crime Scene Collection was translated into Arabic in May 2007. The translation, unlike English, sparks a burning sensation in your mind and soul as you read due to the massive size of the Arabic language, consisting of fifteen million words, compared to 160,000 English words. He considers himself a very fortunate writer armed with two beautiful languages. He is now at sixteen English books and four Arabic. He is trying his hardest to bring the numbers equal; he feels he will in a few years.

Crime Scene Transcripts: Who Terrorized First? was released the following year of the translation. Jabara overcame the problems faced early in writing in English by developing an approach and a style rare in every sense. Critics like John Hopkins, Dan W. Thomson, Frank Penn, Rosaleen Leslie Dickson, and others noticed the new and fresh literary accomplishment.

Despite all life's surprises and obstacles most writers face, he managed to bounce between writing and work. He worked for an international bank as chief.