My review of Elias Khoury's novel Gate of the Sun appears tomorrow in the Financial Times:
In an interview given in 1998 shortly after the publication of the Arabic original of his novel Gate of the Sun, the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury declared that the book’s portrayal of Yunis, an ailing and ageing militant of the Palestinian fedayeen, is deliberately anti-heroic. The usual image of the Palestinian, he said, is one of “heroism and martyrdom”; it was a kind of “liberation”, therefore, to tell an altogether less consoling story - of “humiliation and interior defeat”.
Read the rest here.
