Rowan Somerville: 2 books
Beat
The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
'Rowan Somerville has written an amazing book. Beat is a riveting, intelligent and scrupulously honest journey through the torment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It runs the gamut of human behaviour, from blood-curdling barbarity to extraordinary generosity; a tour de force.'
– Lara...
by Rowan Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
A riotous love letter to Arab culture—its sense of honor and friendship, its food and humor and, above all, storytelling.
In this exuberant, transformative tale of modern-day Cairo, a drunken Irish journalist named Fin seeks a story. His friend Farouk, mercurial teller of tales, has tantalized...