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Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury (Paperback, 2006)

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By Elias Khoury, Humphrey Davies. Brilliant. Elias Khoury, along with Mahmoud Darwish, is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages -- Edward Said.

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Elias Khoury has created a monumental and spellbinding saga, putting human faces to a political tragedy at the forefront of the news even today. In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. His spiritual son Dr Khaleel - who has no real medical qualifications - nurses the older man, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness.In an attempt to revive his patient, Khaleel, like a modern-day Sheherazade, begins telling Yunis the stories of their people's exile in Lebanon. He evokes deserted peasant villages, the suffering caused by the Lebanese civil war and the refugees' hopes to return home with a subtle mixture of anger and compassion. Khaleel also narrates Yunis' own extraordinary life- his childhood in Palestine and his commitment as a member of the fedayeen.Interweaving many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps over the course of seven years, Elias Khoury has created a monumental and spellbinding saga.

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PublisherVintage Publishing

ISBN-139780099461593

eBay Product ID (ePID)87211685

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Book TitleGate of the Sun

AuthorElias Khoury

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicTrue Stories, Genealogy, Government, History, Books

Publication Year2006

TypeTextbook

GenreHistorical

Number of Pages512 Pages

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Item Height198mm

Item Width129mm

Item Weight352g

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Title_AuthorElias Khoury

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by calypso024
07 Feb, 2019
Very thought provoking and insightful
It is not an easy book to read. In does give a good insight into the Palestinian/Israeli situation, though it is historical rather than contemporary. It raises the big questions of what can be said to be true, what are people's real motives, who is the real them or me? What is war?
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