White Masks (Hardcover)

With empathy, tenderness, and pain, Elias Khoury tells the tragedy of the Lebanese Civil War through the eyes and lives of five Beirutis. Khalil Ahmed Jaber is found dead in a refuse heap, and we follow a journalist investigating the crime. We learn about Khalil from his widow, an engineer, a concierge, the garbage collector who discovered his body, and a doctor. Beirut itself is also a transfigured victim, buried in the rubble of violence, destruction, and inhumanity.

Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun (deemed a "masterwork" by The New York Times) was a 2006 New York Times Notable book and was named Best Book of the Year by both The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle. His Yalo inspired the Los Angeles Times to assert that "the beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."

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