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June 4, 2025
this is actually a review of another book from the same author, but its just not on Goodreads at the moment. the book is called Karen and Hasan, 450 pages~ish, i read the first print, 1972s.
the story is about a Lebanese guy who gets a scholarship to Germany to study and learn languages where he meets a beautiful blond German girl with whom he falls in love and its mutual. it was all during the time where the Nazi party was gaining influence and ideas like war and invasions and the like were rampant. as such, him knowing several languages including Russian, the German Bund recruited him and later also Karen and they trained them not to tell each other too but that wasn’t for long. he was the translator to some high up guy and they traveled to Moscow to talk politics, allies and ....
and that’s how the story starts, in Moscow the KGB also recruit him, then he goes to France where he collects info, and then some stuff happens where they end up in danger and the stress of it all gets to them so they use the KGB to leave the bund and on the way they steal secret info about the war and diffuse them to the KGB mostly the important ones, and that valuable info is used to buy them an escape to Beirut Lebanon where Hasan feels most at home and away from the danger and at a time where Lebanon started gathering its wits for independence seeing as France was taken over by the Nazis. at first a German operative finds them and tries to eliminate them but he was killed by Hasan instead, by consequence Hasan and Karen flee to a village in Chouf in which Hasan has relatives that take them in, then Hasan becomes a strong supporter of riad El Soleh and his home country’s independence ….and in the thrill of all that and El Soleh being kidnapped, Hasan and Karen run to help and Karen is assaulted by a French soldier which Hasan tries to kill and is killed in the process. Karen ends up going to Deir El Salib to become a nun and eventually kills herself with a pill.
what i liked about the story is definitely how true karen and hasan were to their love, there was no betrayal or looking at other people, i loved the feelings, the time it was in, the description of how the politics and societies were described. a lot of times being honestly, the history ran too long.... and i’m talking entire chapters long where neither hasan nor karen were mentioned. i understand why the author puts them to explain in what position each country was in and how it affects the direct politics and events they were going through (and maybe in 1970s idk history maybe maybe wasn’t written as much as now or well known, i could be wrong). Anyway, the adventures or better yet journey was very cute and interesting, the author mentioned details that were well researched. a solid book, really just the history was long.
the story is about a Lebanese guy who gets a scholarship to Germany to study and learn languages where he meets a beautiful blond German girl with whom he falls in love and its mutual. it was all during the time where the Nazi party was gaining influence and ideas like war and invasions and the like were rampant. as such, him knowing several languages including Russian, the German Bund recruited him and later also Karen and they trained them not to tell each other too but that wasn’t for long. he was the translator to some high up guy and they traveled to Moscow to talk politics, allies and ....
and that’s how the story starts, in Moscow the KGB also recruit him, then he goes to France where he collects info, and then some stuff happens where they end up in danger and the stress of it all gets to them so they use the KGB to leave the bund and on the way they steal secret info about the war and diffuse them to the KGB mostly the important ones, and that valuable info is used to buy them an escape to Beirut Lebanon where Hasan feels most at home and away from the danger and at a time where Lebanon started gathering its wits for independence seeing as France was taken over by the Nazis. at first a German operative finds them and tries to eliminate them but he was killed by Hasan instead, by consequence Hasan and Karen flee to a village in Chouf in which Hasan has relatives that take them in, then Hasan becomes a strong supporter of riad El Soleh and his home country’s independence ….and in the thrill of all that and El Soleh being kidnapped, Hasan and Karen run to help and Karen is assaulted by a French soldier which Hasan tries to kill and is killed in the process. Karen ends up going to Deir El Salib to become a nun and eventually kills herself with a pill.
what i liked about the story is definitely how true karen and hasan were to their love, there was no betrayal or looking at other people, i loved the feelings, the time it was in, the description of how the politics and societies were described. a lot of times being honestly, the history ran too long.... and i’m talking entire chapters long where neither hasan nor karen were mentioned. i understand why the author puts them to explain in what position each country was in and how it affects the direct politics and events they were going through (and maybe in 1970s idk history maybe maybe wasn’t written as much as now or well known, i could be wrong). Anyway, the adventures or better yet journey was very cute and interesting, the author mentioned details that were well researched. a solid book, really just the history was long.
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