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The Bullet Collection
by Patricia Sarrafian Ward

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“Passionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel.” —Andrea Barrett

Marianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut—bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine’s retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sister’s keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaine’s frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaine’s newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister.

In lyrical, dreamlike prose, Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a child’s heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both.

About the Author

Patricia Sarrafian Ward was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1969 and moved to the United States in 1987. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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monanna11, May 29, 2007 (view all comments by monanna11)
a great novel that reveals the effect of war on children. it is very interesting and hard-to-leave book.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781555973766
Subtitle:
A Novel
Author:
Ward, Patricia Sarrafian
Author:
Sarrafian Ward, Patricia
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Location:
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Depression, mental
Subject:
Sisters
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Lebanon
Subject:
Beirut
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Series Volume:
No. 8A
Publication Date:
20030305
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
9.24x6.32x1.10 in. 1.33 lbs.