The Journey of Little Gandhi [Paperback]

Elias Khoury (Author), Paula Haydar (Translator)

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (Nov 24 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312427174
ISBN-13: 978-0312427177
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #533,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"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."--Edward W. Said

"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."--Le Monde

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"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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