by Elias Khoury · ACTES SUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742746415
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«Yalo» is the novel by Elias Khoury, published by Actes Sud in paperback (344 pages, in French).
Yalo, a member of the Syriac minority, grows up in Beirut during the civil war and ends up in a lawless gang. In love with one of his victims, he is denounced by her; in prison he is tortured to confess crimes he has not committed. His written and rewritten confession becomes a journey into his family past and the construction of himself.
Translation from Arabic (Lebanon) by Rania Samara. Published in 2004, it is part of the Mondes arabes collection from Actes Sud/Sindbad.
For readers of literary fiction with an interest in Lebanon, its civil war and contemporary Arabic literature.
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.
