The Journey of Little Gandhi - by Elias Khoury (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury.--Laila Lalami, <i> Los Angeles Times</i></b> <p/>From the author of <i>Gate of the Sun </i>and one of the most innovative novelists in the Arab World (<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>) 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. <p/>Ingeniously embedding stories within stories, <i>Little Gandhi </i>becomes the story of a city, Beirut, in the grip of civil war. Once again, as John Leonard wrote in <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, Elias Khoury fills in the blank spaces on the Middle Eastern map in our Western heads.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Elias Khoury is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages." --<i>Edward W. Said</i> <p/>"How to tell the story of a city [Beirut] that has changed from the Switzerland of the East, to its Hong Kong, then its Saigon, and finally its Calcutta. [Elias Khoury] has succeeded, as only a great novelist can do." --<i>Le Monde</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>ELIAS KHOURY </b>is the author of twelve novels including <i>Gate of the Sun</i>, <i>Yalo, Little Mountain </i>and <i>City Gates</i>. 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, <i>An-Nahar</i>.</p>
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