Gate of the Sun

Informationen zum Autor Elias Khoury Klappentext 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. 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, putting human faces to a political tragedy which remains at the forefront of the news even today. Zusammenfassung In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma.

Product details

• Authors: Elias Khoury, Khoury Elias, Ilyas Khuri
• Assisted by: Humphrey Davies (Translation), Davies Humphrey (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2006
• EAN: 9780099461593
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946159-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Palästina : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen), FICTION / War & Military, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Lebanon, War & combat fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Palestine, Generational sagas, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Civil wars, saga; epic; exile; lebanon; mahmoud darwish; civil war