Gate of the Sun

Brilliant … Elias Khoury, along with Mahmoud Darwish, is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages – Edward Said
He creates his very own, and very believable, newly coined mythologies…[the] result is a work of remarkable suspense… poetic and mysterious – Nicholas Blincoe * Daily Telegraph *
Gate of the Sun is an imposingly rich and realistic novel, a genuine masterwork * New York Times Book Review *
The word ‘brilliant’ is etched across Khoury’s new novel… It’s a novel that will outlive us * Independent *
In Gate of the Sun, a character dreams of writing a ‘book without a beginning or end… an epic of the Palestinian people’… Khoury’s monumental novel is in a sense that groundbreaking book * Guardian *
An ambitious and powerful novel… Epic * Times Literary Supplement *
Moving, funny and often savage – Tariq Ali
This is a challenging novel that demands from us an imagination potent enough to link its many loose threads…Humphrey Davies’s translation is masterful, allowing us to appreciate Gate of the Sun’s short, clear sentences and crisp metaphors afresh - Samir El-Youssef, New Statesman
Elias Khoury spreads before us a colourful tapestry of life and death, woven with love and compassion - Claudine Besset-Lamoine, Monde Diplomatique

Elias Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1948. Editor in Chief of the cultural pages of the daily newspaper Al-Nahar and professor of Arabic literature at New York University, he is the author of eleven novels. In 2000 he was awarded the Prize of Palestine for Gate of the Sun. Elias Khoury is regarded as one of the best Arabic writers of his generation.

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