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In summer 2008, when Bruno takes a short holiday and goes camping somewhere remote on the Lebanese mountain to mourn a fresh break-up, he is forced to sit with himself and face some haunting personal issues...
A few months afterwards, in winter in Beirut, he is still struggling to clean his system from the traumatizing and life-altering experience of his participation in the middle eastern version of a singing reality-TV competition show back in 2004...
Throughout the seasons and bit by bit, layers of intimate poetry and philosophy are unfolding out of a mid-thirties crisis on a background of complex Lebanese and often stiff mentalities. Could this trip within be the ultimate salvation and key to self-fulfillment, both personally and professionally?

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2015

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April 18, 2015
It's been a while since I read an autobiography that I really, truly enjoyed, that touched me that much, and that I finished reading that quickly.
I am utterly surprised by the quality and the beauty of the words. Bruno shared his thoughts around these few years which were a roller-coaster full of emotions.
His story is similar to some of our stories. I can't but thank you for this awesome and genuine "auto-therapy".
"And Yet" - "But they can talk, for they are looking from outside. And only those who have been through these stages can know what you actually go through. It is a spiral of despair and giving up, racing to drown you deeper in that never ending wormhole. I know I'm not this only one out there, and I salute you".
I highly recommend it. Patrik, well done for the cover :)
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November 16, 2025
je me permet de poser mon commentaire pour un autre livre de Bruno Tabbal, pas encore disponible sur goodreads, intitule :"Le pays dont on ne guérit jamais".
le sommaire : Le petit Bruno a grandi dans un village oublié de la montagne libanaise, parmi des personnages colorés, au temps des cassettes radio et vidéo et des transistors à piles. Loin de Beyrouth, la capitale déchirée par la guerre, il s'est prélassé sous la vigne, enivré des parfums de lavande et de thym, et il a gambadé dans les ravins escarpés là où la brise qui chante fait frétiller les feuilles des peupliers et craquer les branches des chênes.
Cependant, à l'`ombre du clocher de l'église, on chuchote qu'il se cache quelque chose d'enfoui sous le rocher du village. Mais c'est un secret. Un secret qui remonte au temps de la Mutassarrifia du Mont-Liban, au temps des filatures de soie et du déclin de l'Empire ottoman.
Pour connaître ce secret, écoutez l'histoire de Clovis... de tous les autres depuis. ..


Excellent livre, une enfance libanaise et très proche au coeur.
ce livre est classé comme roman mais se lit comme autobiographie.
Je suis reconnaissante à Mr Tabbal d'avoir exposés ces histoires intimes dans ce livre ;
des moments de rires mais aussi de chagrin,
des expéditions, la recherche de son identité,
le village de chatine,
merci bien pour les personnages distincts et interressants surtout cheikh clovis et l'histoire de la création de Notre Dame de l'Annonciation.
Juste magnifique. Très chanceuse d'avoir lu ce livre.

pour moi aussi c'est vraiment le pays dont on ne guerit jamais.
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