The Journey Of Little Gandhi - Brossura

Khoury, Elias

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312427174 ISBN 13: 9780312427177

Casa editrice: Picador Paper, 2009

Riassunto

"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."--Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times

From the author of Gate of the Sun and "one of the most innovative novelists in the Arab World" (The Washington Post Book World) comes the many-layered story of Little Gandhi, or Abd Al-Karim, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice.

Ingeniously embedding stories within stories, Little Gandhi becomes the story of a city, Beirut, in the grip of civil war. Once again, as John Leonard wrote in Harper's Magazine, Elias Khoury "fills in the blank spaces on the Middle Eastern map in our Western heads."

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L'autore

ELIAS KHOURY is the author of twelve novels including Gate of the Sun, Yalo, Little Mountain and City Gates. He is a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, and editor in chief of the literary supplement of Beirut's daily newspaper, An-Nahar.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador Paper
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312427174
• ISBN 13: 9780312427177
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208