Mr. Noon

Among the alleys of my neighborhood, Burj Hammoud and Nabaa in Beirut, Mister Noon wanders, training himself to confront pain, in his attempt to overcome his mother Thuria's harshness, his brother Saeed's dominance, and Nada's abandonment of him. Will his soul be cleansed when he falls into the city's belly, recklessly exploring its insides, bringing out its violence and filth into the open? Originally, who do you think Mister Noon is, and what drove him to the bottom? Naguib Barakat, a Lebanese novelist and founder of "How to Write a Novel Workshop," which has produced 23 novels to date. She has published six novels translated into foreign languages, four of which are from Dar Al-Adab: The Life and Sufferings of Hamad ibn Silaana, The Oadim Bus, Oh Wow, The Language of Secrets... Mister Noon is her seventh novel.