{"title":"Books by Elias Khoury","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780231182973","title":"The Holocaust and the Nakba – A New Grammar of Trauma and History","description":"In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the historical, political, and cultural intersections between them. The majority of the contributors argue that these intersections are embedded in cultural imaginations, colonial and asymmetrical power relations, realities, and structures. Focusing on them paves the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint Arab-Jewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel\/Palestine.   This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a “dialogue” between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56229073322357,"sku":"9780231182973","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780231182973_5dd8ec5f-5807-4824-9481-61b4919e023b.jpg?v=1786032902"},{"product_id":"9780857057518","title":"My Name is Adam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite \u003ci\u003eNobel Prize\u003c\/i\u003e material\" \u003c\/b\u003eAvraham Burg, Haaretz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho is Adam Dannoun?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a consequence of smoking in bed - he thought he knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changed all that. From Mahmoud he learned the terrible truth behind his birth, a truth withheld from him for fifty-seven years by the woman he thought was his mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis discovery leads Adam to investigate what exactly happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born: the massacre, the forced march into the wilderness and the corralling of those citizens who did not flee into what the Israeli soldiers and their Palestinian captives came to refer to as the Ghetto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories he collects speak of bravery, ingenuity and resolve in the face of unimaginable hardship. Saved from the flames that claimed him, they are his lasting and crucial testament.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295010894197,"sku":"9780857057518","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857057518_305a5b8e-01fc-4203-9b80-827748608ed6.jpg?v=1786016260"},{"product_id":"9780099461593","title":"Gate of the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. His spiritual son Dr Khaleel ­­- who has no real medical qualifications - nurses the older man, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an attempt to revive his patient, Khaleel, begins telling Yunis the stories of their people's exile in Lebanon. He evokes deserted peasant villages, the suffering caused by the Lebanese civil war and the refugees' hopes to return home with a subtle mixture of anger and compassion. Khaleel also narrates Yunis' own extraordinary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterweaving many true-life tales collected throughout Lebanon and its refugee camps over the course of seven years, Elias Khoury has created a monumental and spellbinding saga.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311549821301,"sku":"9780099461593","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099461593_fc6c7f6e-b863-4ffb-a728-a31e3dd33904.jpg?v=1786033329"},{"product_id":"on-the-relations-of-the-circle","title":"On the Relations of the Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning portrait of a young orphan living in Beirut on the eve of the Lebanese Civil War\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“We need the voice of Elias Khoury – detailed, exquisite, humane – more than ever.” — Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Beirut of Elias Khoury’s first novel, children converse with sparrows, walk with pine trees, and embrace their branches like old companions. A young orphan named Mansour is trying to locate his beginnings. Twelve toes (no ten), a family name, and a father. “Every evening, we retell the story. The story has no ending.” And so his tale takes shape again. Mansour exchanges candied almonds with a saint and speaks to a woman who would like to trade her eyebrows for his, captured by their beauty. He watches fava beans leap from a bowl and climb up his arm. With each curve of Mansour’s dreams, Elias Khoury sets the coordinates for the questions and concerns that will radiate throughout his exquisite body of fiction. \u003ci\u003eOn the Relations of the Circle \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1975, the year the Lebanese Civil War began. Khoury’s visions of the past, present, and future follow paths as unpredictable as the sun’s rays. They beam and bend, his tales expand and contract, as if anticipating the outbreak of war. Mansour resists the fractures and erasures of war. He buys pens and notebooks, sketching a map of his city as he sees and feels it. “Mansour decides that life is beautiful, that the earth deserves the swaying of trees.” Elias Khoury’s recursive stories, glimpses, and dreams hold fast to Mansour’s decision, offering a story of beauty and humanity just before it vanishes.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510076088693,"sku":"9781962770750","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781962770750.jpg?v=1787130386"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-elias-khoury.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}