by Elias Khoury · Fundación Intermón Oxfam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484526452
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«El viaje del pequeño Gandhi» is the novel by Elias Khoury, published by Fundación Intermón Oxfam in paperback (207 pages, in Spanish).
The voice of Alice, a former prostitute from Beirut, serves to reconstruct the life of Abd Karim, known as the little Gandhi, in a narrative that explores collective memory, identity, and the aftermath of war in Lebanon.
Translation by María Luz Comendador Pérez. The original work was published in 1994 and this Spanish edition appeared in 2009.
A read for those interested in Middle Eastern fiction and the traces war leaves on memory.
Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book Gate of the Sun, and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury also wrote three plays and two screenplays.
