Book Summary. Elias Khoury's most recent novel propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last page. We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who "lost her face in the mirror," he falls in with a dangerous gang whose violent escapades . · Yalo is a thief and rapist, a security guard turned "hunter" in the forested hills above Beirut. Not only has he inverted his job, but he's fallen in love with one of his victims. The novel begins Author: Reviewed. · By Elias Khoury. March 2, Yalo did not understand what was happening. The young man stood before the interrogator and closed his eyes. Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
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. Elias Khoury Books Gate of the Sun Yalo. Elias Khoury was born in Beirut and is one of the most distinguished writers and intellectuals in the contemporary Arab world. Khoury received degrees in History and Sociology. Elias Khoury (Arabic: إلياس خوري ; born 12 July ) is a Lebanese novelist, and prominent public intellectual. Accordingly, he has published myriad novels related to literary criticism, which have been translated into several foreign languages, including www.doorway.ru has also written three plays and two screenplays.. Khoury has been an editor of famous Lebanese newspapers.
Yalo is a thief and rapist, a security guard turned "hunter" in the forested hills above Beirut. Not only has he inverted his job, but he's fallen in love with one of his victims. The novel begins. Yalo, the new novel by the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, is very much in the latter category. Yalo By Elias Khoury was discussed on Monday, February 2nd. After his acclaimed Gate of the Sun, Khoury returns with the spellbinding confession of Beirut criminal Daniel Jal’u, aka Yalo, who is picked up by the cops for rape, robbery and suspicion of arms smuggling. Under torture and the threat of more torture, Yalo writes numerous confessions, but seems unable to grasp the whole of his life, producing instead a series of conflicting sequences and inexplicable omissions.
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