It is published by Hashit Antoine / Nofal Publishing, in Beirut, the novel “Fifth Wall”, by the Lebanese poet and writer Abbas Baydoun, in which the reader follows three votes; The first is the voice of Sheikh Abdul Rahman, returning from Najaf to southern Lebanon. The second is for his friend, the poet Antoine, who searches for his identity between the village and the city, and between his Protestant origin on the one hand, and his tendency to existentialism on the other hand.
And between them there is a third voice, which is the voice of Grace, whom they love both and confused about the choice between them.
The novel “Fifth Wall” in Lebanon, specifically in the late seventies, takes place in the village of Wasil “Wasel”, in which Muslims and Christians lived side by side, before the walls of the war suddenly rose between them.
Lebanese civil war
Through the course of events, the Lebanese Civil War ravages attend, but from a personal angle, and through personal stories, for heroes who preferred to fight their own battles, on the sidelines of the big war.
From the atmosphere of a fifth wall, we read together:
“I am also Antoine.
Antoine, the American University, Antoine Wasel and Antoine Al“ and nothing, ”as Sheikh Abdul Rahman called me, who accompanied me to the scene, and waited until I saw me running my car and its market. What will the Sheikh be after our departure from the region? Between the sheikh and the priest. When I told him that I “and nothing” he said that he envies me.
Abbas Baydoun, a Lebanese poet, novelist and journalist, born in 1945, is considered one of the most prominent literature in the Lebanese cultural scene.
Abbas was published seven novels, including: “Fall of Patent” in 2016, which won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2017, in addition to more than fifteen poetry collections, including “Death takes our sizes” in 2008, which won the Mediterranean Prize in 2009 And his poems were translated into English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Kurdish, and he was issued to him by the Diwan Diwana “Life below zero” in 2021, and “Word larger than House” in 2022..
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