Yalo
By Elias Khoury
Translated by Peter Theroux
By Elias Khoury
Translated by Peter Theroux
By Elias Khoury
Translated by Peter Theroux
By Elias Khoury
Translated by Peter Theroux
Part of Rainmaker Translations
Part of Rainmaker Translations
Category: Military Fiction
Category: Military Fiction
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$18.00
Sep 22, 2015 | ISBN 9780914671282
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Dec 31, 2007 | ISBN 9781935744009
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Praise
Elias Khoury’s Yalo is a novel that transcends—as only art can—the deep divisiveness of ideology, both political and religious. Yalo speaks to our universal humanity, to our profound longing for a realization of self and a connection to others. That such a vision should, at this moment in history, come to the American reading public from a great Arab novelist makes this an extraordinarily important publishing event. —Robert Olen Butler
Khoury refuses to give the reader an easy position from which to judge Yalo – either as a poor soul or a serial rapist, criminal or victim of torture – or from which to judge Lebanon’s tragic and violent fate. His novel is a dense and stunning work of art. —Publishers Weekly
How to write Beirut? . . . with words and images that stumble with weariness, that collapse from the heat, from the stone which composes them only to crumble in turn?…This is why Khoury’s fiction is so powerful. The intent of the writing is to restore its soul. —Tahar Ben Jelloun
Praise for Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun
A remarkable novel. —Harper’s Magazine
There has been powerful fiction about Palestinians . . . but few have held to the light the myths, tales and rumors of both Israel and the Arabs with such discerning compassion. In Humphrey Davies’ sparely poetic translation, Gate of the Sun is an imposingly rich and realistic novel, a genuine masterwork. —The New York Times Book Review
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