The Dark Side of Love

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Authors: Rafik Schami

Table of Contents

Praise

Title Page

Dedication

BOOK OF LOVE I - Olive trees and answers both need time.

1. The Question

BOOK OF DEATH I - Questions are the children of freedom.

2. A Body in the Basket

3. Police Commissioner Barudi

4. In the Jungle

5. Mansur

6. Colonel Badran and the Course of Events

BOOK OF LOVE II - Love is poverty that makes you rich.

7. The Fire

8. Strangers

9. Rapprochement

10. The End of Childhood

BOOK OF LOVE III - Women are like elm trees, beating them does no good.

16. Sarka's Laughter

17. Laila's Decision

18. Laila and the Madman

19. Hyenas

20. Sarka's Fever

21. The Elm Tree

BOOK OF THE CLAN I - Arab clans and pyramids ignore the passing of time.

26. How Mushtak Won Honour

27. Weddings

28. The Transformation of Elias

34. Defeat of the Master of the House

35. Samira and Shams

BOOK OF THE CLAN II - The clan saved the Arabs from the desert, and at the same ...

36. Jasmin and Mariam

37. Samia

38. Fifty-One and One

39. The Struggle

40. Faris the Patient

41. Musa and Hasib

42. End of a Hope

43. Butros and Samuel

44. A Mother's Lament

45. Amira

46. The Opportunity

47. Shaklan's Birthday Party

48. Dethroned

49. Salman

50. Ismail

BOOK OF THE CLAN III - Love is a wildcat with nine lives

51. Lucia and Nagib

52. Tamam and Sarkis

53. The Rift and the Meeting

54. Purgatory and Paradise

55. Beirut, or Deliverance

56. Autumnal Atmosphere

57. An Unholy Alliance

58. The Lightness of Love

59. Mirages and Oases

60. Water In A Sieve

61. Pangs of Conscience

62. Practice

BOOK OF LOVE IV - At the moment of love there's no place for a strange woman

63. Disturbances

64. Sheikh Napoleon

65. Laila

BOOK OF GROWTH I - Caterpillars dream of flying.

71. An Oasis Called Antoinette

77. A Series of Coups

78. The Alley

79. An Angel's Weak Point

80. A Message

81. Going to the Movies

82. The Short Memory of Chickens

83. The Devil's Daughters

84. Secrets

85. Death

86. On the Rooftops

87. Forbidden Reading

88. The Photograph

89. The Inventor

90. Laila's New House

91. Grandfather's Death

92. Going to Church

93. Saying Goodbye

BOOK OF LAUGHTER I - The world of the imagination welcomes children more kindly ...

99. Suleiman and the Chickens

104. Grandfather's Glasses

105. Gibran

106. Salma and St. John

107. When the Tram Stopped

108. Children's Games

109. Festival of Sacrifice

110. Riding a Bicycle

111. Maaruf Directing Traffic

112. Raining Sugar-Coated Fennel Seeds

113. Grandfather's Salt

BOOK OF LONELINESS I - Loneliness is death's twin brother.

122. Nights in Autumn

123. The Inquisitor

124. A Shipwrecked Sailor

125. Silence

126. Rebels

127. An Excursion

128. The Syrian Brothers

129. Discord

130. Epilepsy

131. Spiritual Welfare

132. Fire and Water

133. Claire's Second Visit

134. The Sufferings of the Christians

135. Matta

136. Brother Nicholas

137. Spectres by Night

BOOK OF GROWTH II - He who reads books in spite of school will become a master.

150. Three Days of Dreams Come True

155. Suleiman and Lamia

156. Indian Movies

157. Gibran the Sailor

158. The Club

159. Amin

160. Hakawati of the Night

161. Wars Large and Small

162. Backgammon

163. Nourishment

164. The End of a Dream

165. Training

166. The President's Jacket

167. Gibran's Love

168. Alone

169. Women Helping Out

170. Rasuk and Elizabeth

171. The Debts of Venice

172. Paths Crossing

173. The State of God

174. The Trap

175. The Prayer

176. Hunter and Hunted

177. The Wine Cellar

178. Masculine Honour

179. Listening to Films

180. Fatima and Josef

BOOK OF LAUGHTER II - Faith seldom moves mountains, but superstition moves ...

181. Nerves

182. Azar's Machines

183. A Women's Meeting

184. A Little Worm

185. Crazy Hours

186. The Oath

187. Of Cats and Clever Women

189. The Night of Jokes

BOOK OF LOVE V - Happiness often lies in delaying misfortune.

190. The Man Who Saw With His Ears

191. Karime

192. Breathless

193. Moon Woman

BOOK OF HELL I - If we are to respect the freedom of others we must first ...

194. Lilo

195. Interrogation

196. The Forecourt of Hell

197. Said

198. The Chinese

199. The Children of Job

200. The Power of Words

201. The Rift

202. The False Martyr

203. The Chemistry of Isolation

204. Salto Vitale

BOOK OF LOVE VI - Love lives only in the memory but it needs oblivion too.

205. A Bus Ride

206. Josef's Promise

207. Dunia and the Bedroom Woman

208. Late Enlightenment

209. Spring in Autumn

BOOK OF GROWTH III - Courage kills and so does cowardice.

210. Josef's Injury

211. Gibran's Return

212. Matta's Wedding

213. Hegel in Damascus

214. Coincidence

215. One Of Us

216. “Youth”

217. Love of the Eunuchs

218. An Icy Spring

219. The Fair

220. Treasure Hunting

BOOK OF LAUGHTER III - Both chemical factories and dictators contaminate their surroundings.

221. Fasting in Space

222. Munir's Father

223. Paradise

BOOK OF GROWTH IV - A dictator lives not on earth but in his head.

224. The Problem of Brothers

230. Song of the Cicadas

236. Drinking the Rainbow

237. The Mental Hospital

238. Sabri and Rachel

239. Despair

240. In Flight

241. Lonely Night

BOOK OF LAUGHTER IV - He who sows suspicion reaps traitors.

242. Poetry

243. Adding Up the Truth

BOOK OF HELL II - Those who come to Tad are lost. Those who leave Tad are reborn.

244. The Way to Golgotha

245. Reception

246. Nagi

247. Garasi

248. Loyalty and Recantation

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