Gate of the sun : Bab al- Shams / Elias Khoury ; traslated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

By:

KHOURY, Elias

Contributor(s):

Humphrey Davies

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Picador, c2006.Description: 531p. : ill., maps ; 21cmISBN:

9780312426705

Subject(s):

Palestinian Arabs

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 891.8538 KHO

Summary: 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 nurses the older man. Interweaving many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps, this saga puts human faces to a political tragedy.

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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 nurses the older man. Interweaving many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps, this saga puts human faces to a political tragedy.

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