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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Khūrī, Ilyās.     Subjects     Rape -- Fiction.     Robbery -- Fiction.     False imprisonment -- Fiction.     Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Khūrī, Ilyās.       by title:      Yalo / Elias Khoury ...      Yalu English English...       by call number:      FICTION KHU     Search the Web     Khūrī, Ilyās.     Rape -- Fiction.     Robbery -- Fiction.     False imprisonment -- Fiction.     Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Yalo / Elias Khoury ; translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux. by Khūrī, Ilyās. Picador, c2009. Call #: FICTION KHU Subjects Rape -- Fiction.   Robbery -- Fiction.   False imprisonment -- Fiction.   Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780979333040 (hc.) 9780312428686 (trade pbk.) 0312428685 (trade pbk.) Uniform title:  Yalu English English Edition:  1st Picador ed. Description:  360 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Translation of: Yalu. "First published as Yalo by Dar-al-Adab, Beirut, 2002"--T.p. verso. Summary:  "During the Lebanese civil war in the 1980's, a young man is arrested and charged with rape. Repeatedly interrogated and tortured Yalo is forced - like Scheherazade - to tell a different story each day to stay alive. As he battles to understand his past and the forces that have shaped him, he comes to discover his own voice and the true Yalo begins to emerge. This is a searing look at truth and memory, love and transcendence, from one of our most important Arab novelists."--Back cover Genre:  Arabic fiction -- Translations into English. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION KHU Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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