Khalil Gibran\'s Broken Wings is a poetic novel of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-century Beirut.
Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-America.
Broken Wings highlights the social issues of the time in the Eastern Mediterranean, including religious corruption, the rights of women and of wealth and happiness.
They begin to meet in secret, are discovered, and Selma is forbidden to leave her house.
Selma Karamy is betrothed to a prominent religious man\'s nephew but meets a young man and they fall in love.
Khalil Gibran\'s Broken Wings is a poetic novel of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-century Beirut