Description
In the aftermath of 1948, two men are left alone in a makeshift hospital in Beirut’s Shatila camp—one keeping vigil over a comatose spiritual father, the other drawn into a widening web of memory. As Khalil tries to revive Yunes, his attempt to hold on to a single life becomes the doorway to a vast, branching chronicle of expulsion, massacre, endurance, and love across Palestine and beyond. Woven with intimate immediacy and lyrical momentum, the novel gathers fragments of testimony into a living portrait of a people struggling to preserve truth amid competing stories. With Elias Khoury’s signature blend of historical sweep and deeply human storytelling, this is a Palestinian odyssey of survival—where hope persists not as certainty, but as an act of remembrance.
Available Editions
paperback
New York Review of Books
Published Mar 1, 2012
564 pages
ISBN: 9780982624685
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury.