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Gate of the Sun (Paperback)

by Elias Khoury (Author), Humphrey Davies (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (5 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099461595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0976390008
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 111,608 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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I didn't fight, my dear man, for land or for history. I fought for the woman I loved. 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 - who has no real medical qualifications - nurses the older man, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. In an attempt to revive his patient, Khaleel, like a modern-day Sheherazade, begins telling Yunis the stories of their people's exile in Lebanon: their flight from Galilee in 1948; the violence of the 1950s; the massacre at the Shatila camp in 1982. He evokes deserted peasant villages, the suffering caused by the Lebanese civil war and the refugees' hopes to return home with a subtle mixture of anger and compassion. Khaleel also narrates Yunis' own extraordinary life: his childhood in Palestine and his commitment as a member of the fedayeen; perpetually on the run, fighting and hiding in caves. Interweaving many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps over the course of seven years, Elias Khoury has created a monumental and spellbinding saga, putting human faces to a political tragedy which remains at the forefront of the news even today.

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From many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps over the course of seven years, Elias Khoury has created a monumental and spellbinding saga, putting human faces to a political tragedy at the forefront of the news even today. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If I could give it more stars, I would, 13 Dec 2008
By The Bagster "Baggy" (Shropshire, UK) - See all my reviews
When you're in the presence of literary greatness, you know it. This is one of the finest novels written in the 20th Century. It is THE finest novel ever written about Palestine and the creation of Israel (though, since it is fair-minded and devoid of bigotry and justification of what cannot be justified, that is not hard). I sometimes had to put it down because the accumulation of pain is so hard to take, but it is not a book one could ever walk away from. Anyone who wonders how we in the West came to be surrounded on all sides by terrorist threats should read this book -- and should then ask themselves: Faced with that history; faced with that oppression; faced with those lies; faced with that duplicity; faced with that level of provocation -- would would YOU do?
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3.0 out of 5 stars Indepth Insight into the lives of aDispersed Palestinians, 13 Jun 2007
By Loyaltya (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gate of the Sun (Hardcover)
The author smartly entwines all the true life stories he has come across in his lifetime into characters in his book. One of the main things I love is the way the author starts at the end, and takes you back to the beginning, providing snippets of peoples distressed lives and then taking you back to how they have become that way.

For a true insight into the aftermath of the establishment of Israel and the lives of the dispersed Palestinians across the Arab nations (in particular Lebanon) then this is the book to read. The reference to Palestinians becoming the "Video Nation" is well put, attributing a nation living their daily lives based on the memory of what was once their heritage...

The book received a great review in the Guardian back in October 2005 which inspired me to buy it. Can't believe I'm the first to review it on Amazon though!

Note: Warning for the average modest reader! This book has got a great deal of sexual content - too much for my liking! Hence the three stars.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Epic and personal, 13 Jan 2009
This review is from: Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams (Paperback)
A powerful insight into the middle east, which is also a rich work of literature. By being both epic and personal, you are drawn into a terrible tragedy for a people and for people. A great hero lies in a coma and his story is told by his nurse, who is dedicated but has his own story to tell. It's a mixture of myth and ordinariness and is never simple.
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