Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781737718420)

Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? by Zein El-Amine has been longlisted for the 2023 PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut short fiction.

A dozen boarding school students find themselves stranded at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. A young man, a young woman, and a mistreated monkey unite in a bid to survive. Even Israel's war on Lebanon cannot stop an old woman from getting her fix of nicotine. A young Lebanese student on a visit to Bahrain is wrongly implicated as a terrorist and placed in a prison with other political prisoners where light and hope is absconding. Fresh snow compels a sacrilegious undertaking from a father much to the shock of his children. Shared trauma takes the shape of spectral phantoms. And in the titular story, a hedonistic man eats himself to an early death with the desecration of the city of Beirut forming the backdrop.

Author: Zein El-Amine
ISBN-10: 1737718421
ISBN-13: 9781737718420
Publisher: Radix Media
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 10/27/2022