Awardwinning author Elias Khourys latest novel is a searing look at truth andmemory love and trancendence told through the contradictory confessions of ayoung L... » 

Awardwinning author Elias Khourys latest novel is a searing look at truth andmemory love and trancendence told through the contradictory confessions of ayoung Lebanese prisoner During the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s a young manis arrested and charged with rape. Repeatedly interrogated and tortured Yalois forcedlike Scheherazadeto tell a different story each day to stay alive.As he battles to understand his past and the forces that have shaped him hecomes to discover his own voice and the true Yalo begins to emerge. This is asearing look at truth and memory love and transcendence from one of our mostimportant Arab novelists. «