The most beautiful night of the soul: more stories from the Middle East and beyond Edition: First edition

The emperors of existence -- Beef tongue -- Winter in the promised land -- The peacock angel -- The kingdom of god is approaching -- The trial -- Son of a dog -- The good customer -- Banana split -- The most beautiful night of the soul -- Someone keeps vigil for you -- Crow soup.;"In his award-winning new collection, one of Hungary's top writers takes us to the edge--where fiction meets journalism Set mostly in contemporary Cairo and Iraq, as well as Israel, London, and Hungary, these twelve short stories are a staggering follow-up to those in the acclaimed collection The Devil Is a Black Dog by leading Hungarian writer/photojournalist S©Łndor J©Łszber©♭nyi. Told from the perspective of Cairo-based European war correspondent Daniel Marosh, The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul is, above all, about a journalist examining some of today's most pressing Middle East conflicts and the lives of others even while forced to question his own assumptions and haunted by his own demons. [...]It resonates with the work of Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene--when journalism and an insider's view becomes literature in capital letters"--