Gate to the Sun

Name: Gate to the Sun
ISBN: 9781583225837

Elias Khoury, Humphrey Davies (translation)

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Elias Khoury, along with Mahmoud Darwish, is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles & trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries & changing identities, to radical demands & new languages. From this perspective Khoury’s work bids Mahfouz an inevitable & yet profoundly respectful farewell. — Edward Said

Gate of the Sun: Bab al-Shams is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut. We enter a vast world of displacement, fear, & tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient & spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many. Stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee, of the massacres that followed, of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived, & of love.

Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival & loss, love & devastation, memory & dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people. Originally published in Beirut in 1998, the novel has been a sensation throughout the Arab world, in Israel, & throughout Europe.

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Elias Khoury, born in Beirut, is the author of thirteen novels, four volumes of literary criticism, & three plays. He was awarded the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun, which was named Best Book of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science Monitor, & The San Francisco Chronicle, & a Notable Book by The New York Times. Khoury’s Yalo, White Masks, Little Mountain, The Journey of Little Gandhi, & City Gates are also available in English. Khoury is a Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern & Arabic Studies at New York University…