A middle-aged imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon, diagnosed with cancer, contemplates the illness he fears and has expected for years. He inherited his father's way of life and was persuaded to
"I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman"In The Penguin's Song, a city falls, a
