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...

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1. Verfasser:	Ḫūrī, Ilyās 1948-2024 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English Arabic
Veröffentlicht:	Brooklyn, NY Archipelago Books 2008
Ausgabe:	1. Archipelago Books ed.
Schriftenreihe:	Rainmaker translations
Schlagworte:	Gangs > Fiction Prisoners > Fiction Torture > Fiction Young men > Fiction Beirut (Lebanon) > Fiction Fiktionale Darstellung
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	"First published as Yalo by Dar-al-Adab, Beirut, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Beschreibung:	317 p. 20 cm
ISBN:	9780979333040 0979333040