shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | November 5, 2009

John Buntin: IMG Notes from the (Bibliographic) Underground



For more than 60 years, Los Angeles's origins, its underbelly, and (yes) its blondes have fueled the imagination of writers and directors from... Continue »
  1. $18.20 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

This item may be
out of stock.

Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.
Check for Availability
Add to Wishlist

The Bullet Collection

by Patricia Sarrafian Ward

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

“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.

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
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.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No

Product Details

ISBN:
9781555973766
Subtitle:
A Novel
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Author:
Ward, Patricia Sarrafian
Author:
Sarrafian Ward, Patricia
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.

Other books you might like

  1. $19.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  3. $1.63 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Cairo House

    Samia Serageldin
  4. $143.25 New Hardcover add to wish list
  5. $12.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Never in a Hurry

    Naomi Shihab Nye
  6. $5.25 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.