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A review by stacialithub
White Masks by Elias Khoury
4.0
Set during and around the years of war in Lebanon, it presents a meandering tale whose supposed purpose is to determine who killed an older man in a neighborhood. However, the real purpose seems to be to show you the confusions, justifications, brutalities, kindnesses, look-the-other-way attitudes, privations, duties, myths, life-goes-on-even-amid-death-and-war activities, heartbreaks, shifting morals, & so on that happen to a regular populace during a wartime situation. It's not really a linear story, almost more of an out-loud conversation with a variety of everyday people, stream-of-consciousness ramblings about their lives.... Haunting, especially when you think of the many humans caught up in wars at this very minute. This could be your story. Or mine. Or of the stranger halfway around the world.