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Yalo by Elias Khoury Review
We’ve just published my review of Yalo by Elias Khoury at The Quarterly Conversation.
Elias Khoury has been called Beirut’s answer to Joan Didion or Orhan Pamuk: the one contemporary author who has made that place his own. His novel Gate of the Sun is widely regarded as one of the major works of Arabic literature of the late 20th century.
Yalo, which is on the Best Translated Book Award shortlist, has been praised as a distillation of Gate of the Sun. It’s a quasi-first-person, highly unreliable account of the life of a man currently being tortured and interrogated by the Lebanese police.
This is one of my favorite works of the BTB shortlist, and it’s left me thirsty for more Khoury. Have a look at my review of Yalo at The Quarterly Conversation.
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