Gate of the sun : Bab al-shams / Elias Khoury.

By:

Khoury, Elias [author.]

Contributor(s):

Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 500 pages; maps, 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780099461593 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Bāb al-shams. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

892.737 KHO 23 018628

LOC classification:

PJ7842.H823 B3313 2006

Summary: In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, Khalil relates the story of a Palestinian exile while also recalling Yunes's own extraordinary life and his love for his wife, whom he meets secretly over the years at Bab al-Shams, the Gate of the Sun.

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In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, Khalil relates the story of a Palestinian exile while also recalling Yunes's own extraordinary life and his love for his wife, whom he meets secretly over the years at Bab al-Shams, the Gate of the Sun.

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