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The Journey of Little Gandhi
"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."--Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times From the author of Gate of the Sun and "one of the most innovative novelists in the Arab World" (The Washington Post Book World) comes the many-layered story of Little Gandhi, or...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
November 24th 2009
by Picador
(first published July 1994)
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Normally, "fog of war" refers to the ambiguity and confusion encountered by military men, from commanders through ground soldiers, combatants during a war or battle. Yet the fog can envelop more than the military. There is also a fog of uncertainty and confusion in a city under siege or its inhabitants. Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury takes readers to that level in The Journey of Little Gandhi, a view of the life of average individuals in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war.
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Set in Beirut during the Civil War, this book is both funny and immensely sad. It is, as so much of recent Lebanese literature/art has been, a study on memory and story-telling and history -- and the impossibility of all three. A man dies at the beginning of each chapter, and his story begins again. Each chapter is a different attempt to tell a version of his life and the lives of those around him.
I enjoyed it -- and I particularly enjoyed the references to a city and a landscape tha...more
I enjoyed it -- and I particularly enjoyed the references to a city and a landscape tha...more
So, the left-wing, public radio devotee in me is supposed to give this book 4 or 5 stars, because it portrays a non-European culture in a good light and has a prostitute for a main character. Yoohoo. That is, unfortunately, not enough to constitute good literature. Sorry, Mr. Khoury.
Khoury asserts that Little Gandhi is a well traveled man, although he never leaves Beirut, because the city undergoes so many changes during Little Gandhi's life. I read to the very last page looking for an...more
Khoury asserts that Little Gandhi is a well traveled man, although he never leaves Beirut, because the city undergoes so many changes during Little Gandhi's life. I read to the very last page looking for an...more
Got to page 68 and still have no idea what's really going on. I'm giving up on this one.
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Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist, playwright and critic. He has published ten novels, which have been translated into several foreign languages, as well as several works of literary criticism. He has also written three plays. He currently serves as editor of Al-Mulhaq, the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Nahar, and is a prominent public intellectual.
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