The Last Country
Antoine Douaihy
Selma Farah's sudden passing away was the first time the novel's narrator came face-to-face with death, and his life from that night would never be the same. But his tragedy had begun on the same night two years before, when his girlfriend Clara disappeared, on her way from the Royal Institute to a café just a few hundred metres away, where he was waiting for her. Her disappearance was a mystery impossible to fathom, since all the investigations showed that it was voluntary, not forced, and he was unable to discover why. Since then, his life has been devoted to the unrelenting and continual search for her.
Publisher
Arab Scientific Publishers
Nomination
2018 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.