What do you get when you put a Turkish-Kurdish woman from Germany into Beirut, Lebanon, a war-ridden country where she is faced with people who do their utmost to portray themselves as westernized but live in a patriarchic society, a friendship with a CIA refugee and a dysfunctional love relationship with a Lebanese hunk with the mentality of a Neanderthal?
BEIRUT: I CAME, I SAW, I FLED is a 121, 650-word novel containing a spicy mix of romance, war, drama, comedy, and satire; it is the story of a young woman who travels to Beirut in search of herself but who flees the country in the dead of night more confused and distraught than ever before.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A.S. Ceyda was born in 1981 to Kurdish parents in Turkey and was raised in Germany. Her passion for travelling led her to places like New York where she studied and worked for several years, as well as to Beirut and Istanbul. She currently lives and works in Germany. This is her first book.
www.asceyda.com
