“One of the Arabic world's most highly regarded authors, Elias Khoury was vaulted on the international stage when Gate of the Sun became a sensation throughout Europe, Israel, and the Middle East. Now available for the first time in the US, Gate of the Sun is a compassionate, groundbreaking epic of the Palestine exodus. After their country is torn apart by the big bang of 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted hospital in the Shatila camp, and the reader enters a vast world of displacement,...”