"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
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