Beirut · 1998 · citedGate of the Sun
Elias Khoury
In the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, after the 1982 massacre, the makeshift doctor Khalil keeps vigil over the comatose old fighter Yunes, telling him the interwoven stories of the Palestinian catastrophe. The frame is the camp; the tales range back to the Galilee villages emptied in 1948, to the cave called Bab al-Shams where Yunes crossed the border to meet his wife, and to the long exile in Lebanon, holding a whole people's memory in one dying man's room.
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