As Lebanon experiences its darkest days, Beirut Noir, a book that discusses the times of the civil war, ironically makes perfect sense in the miserable present days too.
The smoke of abandonment permeates ″Beirut Noir″. In this collection of short stories, we find the remains of the crippled, the lonely, the lost, and the dead. They move – or fail to move – through a landscape violently reshaped by fifteen years of civil war. Many of the characters are stuck in an afterlife of one sort or another. Or, if they′re still alive, time has stopped.