Yalo(English, Paperback, Khoury Elias)

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Yalo(English, Paperback, Khoury Elias) is written by Khoury Elias and published by Quercus Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1906694818 (ISBN 10) and 9781906694814 (ISBN 13).

Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern Thousand and One Nights, a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all his sorrows, all his guilt - and of the other crimes his interrogators have him confess to. Beirut and the legacy of the wars of the Middle East are the texture of Elias Khoury's extraordinary literary achievement.