Book Review
The Foghorn Echoes: Tragic love story backdropped by years of upheaval in Iraq and Syria
Two gay friends growing up in Syria have to deal with the ghosts of their past as they end up on opposite sides of the world
The Foghorn Echoes opens with a kiss, shared on a Damascus rooftop between two young boys, Hussam and Wassim, in 2003. Just about old enough to learn about the horrors of war, they lived in an area that “buzzed with tales from neighbouring Iraq: stories of mass graves and downed aeroplanes, of buildings as tall as mountains crumbling to dust, of invading Americans with blonde hair and blue eyes”. After an accident involving Hussam’s father ...
