Faces and stories

A person''s life, with its joys and sorrows, is nothing but a continuous series of faces and stories. Some of them get lost in the busyness of life, and the memory cannot recall them whenever it wants, and some of them are engraved in the conscience and refuse to be forgotten. In this book, Maroun Abboud narrates some of the stories he lived and the faces he met. Through a collection of short stories, thoughts, and articles, which he wrote in a smooth language, in his exquisite and precise style, which is not devoid of his sense of irony. Maroun Abboud is a journalist, satirical novelist, and brilliant critic. He is considered one of the pioneers of the modern literary renaissance in Lebanon. He has enriched the Arab library with several published and manuscript works in various literary genres, including novels, stories, theater, poetry, and thoughts, but what he excelled at most is It is criticism, and perhaps what helped him in this is that he was honest and courageous in expressing his opinions and convictions, whether in the field of literature, or various fields of life, in addition to that he had a sarcastic style of humor, which helped him mitigate the severity of his criticism.