by Mariluz Comendador Pérez, Elias Khoury · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498881318
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«El viaje del pequeño Gandhi» is a novel by Elias Khoury, published by Icaria editorial in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Alice, a former prostitute from Beirut, gathers multiple stories around the found body of her friend, the shoeshiner Abdelkarim, nicknamed «el Pequeño Gandhi», after the Israeli invasion of 1982; together they form a choral narrative that leads into the Lebanese civil war.
The Spanish edition is from 2009; in some catalogs the title appears as «El viaje del pequeño Gandhi (Nadhari)».
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Lebanon and in how war cuts across city lives.
Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book Gate of the Sun, and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury also wrote three plays and two screenplays.
