Publisher's Synopsis
"Pola de Pera" evokes a lost Levantine world, a decadent but gracious society untouched by the nationalism and bloodshed of the modern Middle East. Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian or Jew, the characters are both fantasical and very real, from Pola, the diva, to Caroline Contri, the sad little hunchback, from Antoine, whose beauty electrified the Modern' Bar, to Alexander Pinky, heart-breaker and hairdresser par excellence. Sometimes poignant, sometimes cruel, always witty, Ayoub Sinano's tales were originally published in Paris more than twenty years ago. This is their first appearance in English. It is illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
