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Post-modern vamping: Anti Lebanon by Carl Shuker

By Chris Humphreys In Books

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In one of the great lines of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus famously says, “History is the nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” The nightmarish history of modern Lebanon provides the setting for Carl Shuker’s latest novel, Anti Lebanon, a post-colonial dystopia. Like Shuker’s 2005 debut, The Method Actors, it is an ambitious work and an important development in New Zealand literature. Anti Lebanon, named for the mountains that straddle Lebanon and Syria, takes in a large sweep of modern Lebanese history. At the centre of the novel ...

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