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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780979333040 |
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"Khoury's great talent lies in his ability to let us witness the making of a monster, but without giving us the possibility of judging him or feeling morally superior to him." Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times (read the entire Los Angeles Times review)
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Elias Khoury's most recent novel propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last page. We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who "lost her face in the mirror,"he falls in with a dangerous gang whose violent escapades he treats as a game. The game becomes a frightening reality, however, when Yalo is accused of rape and imprisoned. He is forced to confess to crimes of which he has no recollection. As he writes, and rewrites, he begins to grasp his family's past and recall all that his psyche has buried, and the true Yalo begins to emerge.
Elias Khouryis the author of twelve novels, four volumes of literary criticism, and three plays. Editor of the cultural pages of Beirut's An-Nahar, Khoury also is a global distinguished professor at New York University. Gate of the Sunwas a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year in 2006.
Peter Therouxtranslated Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt, Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley, and Alia Mamdouh's Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad. He has lived and traveled throughout the Middle East and is currently based in Washington, DC.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780979333040
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Archipelago Books
- Translator:
- Theroux, Peter
- Author:
- Author:
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Edition Description:
- Archipelago Boo
- Series:
- Rainmaker Translations
- Publication Date:
- January 2008
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 317
- Dimensions:
- 0.00 x 0.00 in










