Drowning in Lake Morez
Antoine Douaihy
Drowning in Lake Morez is the story of a couple separated by culture and place. Whenthe narrator, a Lebanese man, falls in love with a French woman, they begin a passionate affair. However their relationship, punctuated by separation, is fraught with difficulties and they struggle to make it work even when they are together. Looking at the larger issue of displacement, the book explores how – in our transitory, modern lifestyle - people often feel caught between different worlds.
Publisher
Dar al-Mourad
Nomination
2015 Longlist
Antoine Douaihy
Country of origin Lebanon
About the author
Antoine Douaihy is a Lebanese novelist and poet, born in 1948. He completed his higher education in Paris, gaining a doctorate in Anthropology from the Sorbonne in 1979, and remaining in France until the mid-nineties. He currently works as Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at The Lebanese University.