The Drowned World  (English, Paperback, Ballard J. G.)

Maysa returns to the house that was her grandparents′ when she was a child, in a village high on the slopes of Mount Lebanon.

Aida, who has long since left the country of her birth, returns in search of the Palestinian refugee who was a second father to her when she was a child.

And Salwa, now an old woman, recalls her life from her hospital bed, surrounded by her family but still, in some sense, far from home.