Elias Khoury, born in Beirut, is the author of thirteen novels,
four volumes of literary criticism, and three plays. He was awarded
the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun, which was named Best Book
of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science
Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and a Notable Book by The
New York Times. Khoury’s Yalo, White Masks, Little Mountain, The
Journey of Little Gandhi, and City Gates are also available in
English. Khoury is a Global Distinguished Professor of Middle
Eastern and Arabic Studies at New York University. As Though She
Were Sleeping received France’s inaugural Arabic Novel Prize.
Humphrey Davies’ translations include Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at
War (American University in Cairo Press, Anchor Books) and Alaa
al-Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building (AUC Press). He has lived
throughout the Middle East and is currently based in Cairo.
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
"For Khoury, those who live their lives enshrouded in death and
political instability deserve a voice, and like few before him, he
takes up their cause with a fearlessness that we can only
marvel at, hoping that maybe in the near future, books like
Khoury’s won’t have to be written."
—Keenan McCracken, Music and Literature
"Because the world is the way it is, because whole groups of people
can be maligned, neglected, ignored, for too many years, we need
the voice of Elias Khoury—detailed, exquisite, humane—more than
ever. Read him. Without fail, read him."
—Naomi Shihab
"Nye Elias Khoury . . . is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles
and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing
identities, to radical demands and new languages. From this
perspective Khoury’s work bids Mahfouz an inevitable and yet
profoundly respectful farewell."
—Edward Said
"There has been powerful fiction about Palestinians and by
Palestinians, but few have held to the light the myths, tales and
rumors of both Israel and the Arabs with such discerning
compassion. In Humphrey Davies' sparely poetic translation, Gate of
the Sun is an imposingly rich and realistic novel, a genuine
masterwork."
—New York Times Book Review
"In Gate of the Sun a character dreams of writing a ‘book without a
beginning or end . . , an epic of the Palestinian people,’ based on
the stories of every village, and starting from the ‘great
expulsion of 1948.’ Elias Khoury’s monumental novel is in a sense
that groundbreaking book."
—The Guardian (UK)
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