Description
ISBN: 0976395029
Title: Gate of the Sun
Author: Khoury, Elias
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Archipelago Books, New York
Publication Date: 2005
Edition: SIGNED First Edition
Book Condition: F
D-j Condition: F
Synopsis: 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, 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. 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.
