Gate of the sun Bab al-shams

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Gate of the sun = Bab al-shams

Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Picador, c2006

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Bab al-Shams

باب الشمس

Gate of the sun : a novel

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Translation of: Bab al-Shams

"Originally published with the title Bab al-Shams by Dâr-al-Adâb, Beirut, 1998. First published in the United States by Archipelago Books"--T.p. verso

Summary: In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, Khalil relates the story of a Palestinian exile while also recalling Yunes's own extraordinary life and his love for his wife, whom he meets secretly over the years at Bab al-Shams, the Gate of the sun

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