Yalo - Rilegato

Elias Khoury

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1847243908 ISBN 13: 9781847243904

Casa editrice: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2009

Riassunto

Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern Thousand and One Nights, a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all of his sorrows, all of his guilt - and other crimes which his interrogators need him to confess to. Beirut and the legacy of the wars of the Middle East are the texture of Elias Khoury's extraordinary and huge literary achievement.

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Recensione:

'Elias Khoury is a pure storyteller. A writer who knows the hypnotic power of words, and who makes the power the very subject of his books... This novel could very well be infinite. Or retold eternally' --Frederic Vitoux, Nouvel Observateur

'In Lebanon, there is a passion and there is blood. Elias Khoury's new novel,Yalo, heavy with both, is a dizzying journey into the extremes of human experience into intense sensuality and stomach-turning violence' --Adam Lebor, New York Times

'Elias Khoury is a pure storyteller' New York Times. 'Yalo...is a dizzying journey into the extremes of human experience - into intense sensuality and stomach-turning violence' Los Angeles Times. 'Khoury's great talent lies in his ability to let us witness the making of a monster, but without giving us the possibility of judging him or feeling morally superior to him' Nouvel Observateur. 'Yalo is a highly compelling performance, presented in beautifully crafted, often lilting prose, a tribute to Khoury's authorship in Arabic as well as Humphrey Davies' translation. This novel is about a corrupted individual in a corrupting time, but it speaks of and to us all.' Guy Mannes Abbott, Independent. 'How to write Beirut? ...with words and images that stumble with weariness, that collapse from the heat, from the stone which composes them only to crumble in turn? ...this is why Khoury's fiction is so powerful. The intent of the writing is to restore its soul' Tahar Ben Jelloun. 'Yalo establishes Khoury as the sort of novelist whose name is inseparable from a city. 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. --Reviews

L'autore:

Elias Khoury is Editor-in-Chief of the cultural pages of the daily newspaper Al-Nahar in Beirut and professor of Arabic literature at New York University. In 2000, he was awarded the Palestinian literary prize for Gate of the Sun. Humphrey Davies' previous translations include Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, for which he won the Banipal Prize.

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• Editore: Quercus Publishing Plc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847243908
• ISBN 13: 9781847243904
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320