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Yalo / Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux.
- Title
- Yalo / Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux.
- Author
- Khūrī, Ilyās.
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books ; [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ7842.H823 Y3513 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Theroux, Peter.
- Description
- 317 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Yalo is a young man growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who "lost her face in the mirror," he falls in with a dangerous gang whose violent escapades he treats as a game. The game becomes a frightening reality, however, when Yalo is accused of rape and imprisoned. He is forced to confess to crimes of which he has no recollection. As he writes, and rewrites, he begins to grasp his family's past and recall all that his psyche has buried, and the true Yalo begins to emerge--Publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Yālū. English
- Alternative Title
- Yālū.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Translations – 21st century.
- Note
- "Rainmaker translations."
- "First published as Yalo by Dar-al-Adab, Beirut, 2002"--T.p. verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780979333040 (alk. paper)
- 0979333040 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007038964
- OCLC
- 154704162
- SCSB-11731156
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library