Indran’s Reviews > أورفوار عكا > Status Update

approachable, fast-paced, lovely Arabic words like غياهب . Rich historical detail. And I appreciate the idea that both Napoleon and the Ottoman governor of Acre were brutal. However. The author is obsessed with elaborating on scenes of unthinkably extreme sexual violence, to the point that even I as a non-moralistic reader am frequently really wishing for some confirmation that the author wasn't getting off on this.