- Published: 1 January 2007
- ISBN: 9780099461593
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $39.99
Gate of the Sun
- Published: 1 January 2007
- ISBN: 9780099461593
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $39.99
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
Elias Khoury spreads before us a colourful tapestry of life and death, woven with love and compassion - Claudine Besset-Lamoine, Monde Diplomatique
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
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
Moving, funny and often savage
Tariq Ali
An ambitious and powerful novel... Epic
Times Literary Supplement
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