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Gate of the Sun
Gate of the Sun | Elias Khoury
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Gate of the Sun is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut. We enter a vast world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient and spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many. Stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee, of the massacres that followed, of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived, and of love. Khalillike Elias Khouryis a truth collector, trying to make sense of the fragments and various versions of stories that have been told to him. His voice is intimate and direct, his memories are vivid, his humanity radiates from every page. Khalil lets his mind wander through time, from village to village, from one astonishing soul to another, and takes us with him. Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people.
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Leftcoastzen
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#autumnplease #OrangeStack so tempting to just run around and pull the penguins!😊🐧

Eggs Lovely 🍊🧡🤩 13mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 🧡🧡 13mo
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shawnmooney
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https://youtu.be/_ZRrsKyhXUM

This week, I give quick updates to all 27 books I‘m currently reading, realize I have a problem, and create a new reading plan to get my current reading under some control. I also finally divulge why I quit Scribd in a huff.

TrishB 27 😱 3y
LeahBergen 27. 🤣🤣 3y
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rakeshpm
Gate of the Sun | Elias Khoury

Interesting.

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hissingpotatoes
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People are only the phantoms of their memories.

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hissingpotatoes
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Have you heard that terrifying expression “to kill time”? It‘s time that kills us, but we pretend it‘s the other way around!

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hissingpotatoes
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A story is a life that didn‘t happen, and a life is a story that didn‘t get told.

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hissingpotatoes
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You answered me by saying that what was worth dying for was what we wanted to live for.
“[...]That land will remain, and the question isn‘t who will hold it, because it‘s an illusion to think that land can be held. No one can hold land when he‘s going to end up buried in it. It‘s the land that holds men and pulls them back toward it. I didn‘t fight, my dear friend, for the land or for history. I fought for the sake of a woman I loved.”

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hissingpotatoes
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Love has a thousand doors. But one-sided love isn‘t a door, it‘s a delusion.

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hissingpotatoes
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Bailedbailed

2/5⭐ The writing is beautiful and I really like the themes, but I just don't have it in me to read 530 pages of what is almost stream of consciousness.

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WessamD
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Pickpick

The novel is deeply moving, it literally left me in tears..
The author speaks of a whole history of Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation through the voice of a narrator who relentlessly seeks to find the truth. He writes about horrendous massacres and unbearable conditions Palestinians had to endure with no where to go after the Israelis occupied their land. Yet amid all the sadness, the author still gives inspiring hope in liberation.

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shawnmooney
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Another door-stopper of a novel that I couldn't stop thinking about so I finally bought it. It's over five-hundred pages long so who knows when I'll get around to reading it but apparently it's THE novel of the Palestinian experience.

ReadingEnvy How do you keep reading books on MY tbr list? 8y
shawnmooney @ReadingEnvy I am a bibliostalker: sue me! :) (Actually, I told you about this book a few months ago but I have no idea whether you'd already heard of it...) 8y
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