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...promised the people everything they wanted to hear, and he fed the public's hunger for assurance of its territorial security. But history will prove that the Jewish people, as well as the Arabs, were conned out of peace by a self-serving politician with a hidden agenda. ABDO ANTUN Beirut...
TUSHIM'S TALE--beginning with Cuscat's nativity, following him through his early spiritual indoctrination from his parents, Antun and Rosha, and later from the Dominicans, and concluding with his maturity as a visionary and revolutionary leader--unified the various historical, anthropological and folk sources which the novelist consulted and which he includes as notes at the back of the book. Two of the most haunting scenes in the novel have analogues in this source material. One, recorded by Harvard anthropologist Evon Vogt, is a myth from a town near Chamula, which explains how a bull was present when...
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