Yalo

Elias Khoury's novel Yalo propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last sentence.

We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who “lost her face in the mirror,” he falls in with a dangerous gang whose violent escapades he treats as a game. The game becomes a frightening reality, however, when Yalo is accused of rape a...