Elias Khoury

Meelyas dreams are her refuge from events that threaten her or escape her understanding. She leaves her home in Lebanon to live in Nazareth with her Palestinian husband, but Mansour - an older man who fell for her beauty - is frustrated by her spiritual absence.When Mansours brothers death demands a move to Jaffa - the centre of early tensions between Jewish settlers and displaced Palestinians - Meelya withdraws further into the realm of dreams. Expecting the birth of their son, Mansour can only watch as she cuts loose from the physical world.Over three traumatic nights, past, present and future merge seamlessly into a series of visions that draw the reader towards a conclusion that is powerfully symbolic of the ongoing troubles in the Middle East.

En 1963, à l’âge de quinze ans, Adam, jeune Palestinien, quitte seul sa ville natale – Lydda, rebaptisée Lod après la conquête israélienne de 1948 –, fuyant les traumatismes d’une enfance passée dans

A New York, Elias Khoury rencontre un marchand de falafels qui, au fil de leurs discussions, en vient a lui reprocher le manque de rigueur historique du roman La Porte du soleil. Un jour, celle qui les avait presentes lun a lautre informe lauteur que le marchand a ete retrouve mort asphyxie dans son appartement et elle lui remet son journal intime, consigne sur des cahiers presque calcines. Aux yeux de lauteur, lhistoire de cet homme est une suite revee pour La Porte du soleil. Il decide alors de la publier sous son propre nom.

Nasri est un pharmacien de Beyrouth qui vit seul avec ses deux enfants, Karim et Nassim. Le premier, étudiant en médecine, milite dans un mouvement de gauche, sous le nom de guerre “Sinalcol” (surnom

Yalo a grandi à Beyrouth pendant les années de la guerre civile, comme une bête de guerre et de sexe, jusquau jour où il tombe amoureux dune des femmes quil a agressées. Mais elle le dénonce et c’est

En 1963, à l’âge de quinze ans, Adam, jeune Palestinien, quitte seul sa ville natale – Lydda, rebaptisée Lod après la conquête israélienne de 1948 –, fuyant les traumatismes d’une enfance passée dans

Nasri est un pharmacien de Beyrouth qui vit seul avec ses deux enfants, Karim et Nassim. Le premier, étudiant en médecine, milite dans un mouvement de gauche, sous le nom de guerre “Sinalcol” (surnom

A New York, Elias Khoury rencontre un marchand de falafels qui, au fil de leurs discussions, en vient a lui reprocher le manque de rigueur historique du roman La Porte du soleil. Un jour, celle qui les avait presentes lun a lautre informe lauteur que le marchand a ete retrouve mort asphyxie dans son appartement et elle lui remet son journal intime, consigne sur des cahiers presque calcines. Aux yeux de lauteur, lhistoire de cet homme est une suite revee pour La Porte du soleil. Il decide alors de la publier sous son propre nom.

Yalo a grandi à Beyrouth pendant les années de la guerre civile, comme une bête de guerre et de sexe, jusquau jour où il tombe amoureux dune des femmes quil a agressées. Mais elle le dénonce et c’est

In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma.

Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanons sectarian civil war, before becoming 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 his sorrows, all his guilt - and of the other crimes his interrogators have him confess to. Beirut and the legacy of the wars of the Middle East are the texture of Elias Khourys extraordinary literary achievement.

"Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material"Avraham Burg, HaaretzWho is Adam Dannoun?Until a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a consequence of smoking in bed - he thought he knew.But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changed all that. From Mahmoud he learned the terrible truth behind his birth, a truth withheld from him for fifty-seven years by the woman he thought was his mother.This discovery leads Adam to investigate what exactly happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born: the massacre, the forced march into the wilderness and the corralling of those citizens who did not flee into what the Israeli soldiers and their Palestinian captives came to refer to as the Ghetto.The stories he collects speak of bravery, ingenuity and resolve in the face of unimaginable hardship. Saved from the flames that claimed him, they are his lasting and crucial testament.Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

En 1963, à l’âge de quinze ans, Adam, jeune Palestinien, quitte seul sa ville natale – Lydda, rebaptisée Lod après la conquête israélienne de 1948 –, fuyant les traumatismes d’une enfance passée dans

Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of rubbish? Why did he disappear weeks before his horrific death? And who was he? A journalist begins to piece the truth together by speaking with his widow, a local engineer, a nightwatchman, the garbage man who discovered him, the doctor who performed the autopsy, and a young militiaman. Their stories underline the horrors of Lebanons bloody civil war and its ravaging effects on the psyches of the survivors. With empathy and candour, Elias Khoury reveals the havoc the war wreaked on Beirut and its inhabitants, as well as their dogged resilience.

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from civil war? Was it to answer his brother Nasims call to raise a hospital out of the ashes? Was it to kick over the traces of past love affairs? Or to establish the truth behind his fathers death? Or was it to confront at last the ghost of the man known only as "Sinalcol", a legendary phantom of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself? In Beirut, Karim will learn the fate of old comrades, and face a brother who shares a past as divided as the city itself. And he will find that peace is only ever fleeting in a war without end.

Stella Maris, segundo volume da trilogia "Crianças do gueto", do autor libanês Elias Khoury, dá continuidade à narrativa iniciada em Meu nome é Adam e aprofunda a trajetória de Adam Dannun, primeiro

Meu nome é Adam é o primeiro volume da trilogia "Crianças do gueto". O livro narra a história de Adam, um intrigante vendedor de falafel, e, por meio da reconstrução da memória desse personagem, a pr

A stunning portrait of a young orphan living in Beirut on the eve of the Lebanese Civil WarWe need the voice of Elias Khoury detailed, exquisite, humane more than ever. Naomi Shihab NyeIn the Beirut of Elias Khourys first novel, children converse with sparrows, walk with pine trees, and embrace their branches like old companions. A young orphan named Mansour is trying to locate his beginnings. Twelve toes (no ten), a family name, and a father. Every evening, we retell the story. The story has no ending. And so his tale takes shape again. Mansour exchanges candied almonds with a saint and speaks to a woman who would like to trade her eyebrows for his, captured by their beauty. He watches fava beans leap from a bowl and climb up his arm. With each curve of Mansours dreams, Elias Khoury sets the coordinates for the questions and concerns that will radiate throughout his exquisite body of fiction. On the Relations of the Circle was published in 1975, the year the Lebanese Civil War began. Khourys visions of the past, present, and future follow paths as unpredictable as the suns rays. They beam and bend, his tales expand and contract, as if anticipating the outbreak of war. Mansour resists the fractures and erasures of war. He buys pens and notebooks, sketching a map of his city as he sees and feels it. Mansour decides that life is beautiful, that the earth deserves the swaying of trees. Elias Khourys recursive stories, glimpses, and dreams hold fast to Mansours decision, offering a story of beauty and humanity just before it vanishes.

Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of garbage? Why had this civil servant disappeared weeks before his horrific death? Who was this man? A journalist begins to piece together an answer by speaking with his widow, a local engineer, a watchman, the garbage man who discovered him, the doctor who performed the autopsy, and a young militiaman. Their stories emerge, along with the horrors of Lebanons bloody civil war and its ravaging effects on the psyches of the survivors. With empathy and candor, Elias Khoury reveals the havoc the war wreaked on Beirut and its inhabitants, as well as the resilience of a people.

Yalo propels us into a skewed universe of brutal misunderstanding, of love and alienation, of self-discovery and luminous transcendence. At the center of the vortex stands Yalo, a young man drifting between worlds like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother who "lost her face in the mirror," he falls in with a dangerous circle whose violent escapades he treats as a game. The game becomes a horrifying reality, however, when Yalo is accused of rape and armed robbery, and is imprisoned. Tortured and interrogated at length, he is forced to confess to crimes of which he has little or no recollection. As he writes, and rewrites his testimony, he begins to grasp his familys past, and the true Yalo begins to emerge. Haaretz calls Yalo "a heartbreaking book . . . hypnotic in beauty."