Skip to main content
Trade Books For Courses Tradebooks for Courses

Little Mountain

Elias Khoury; Foreword by Edward W. Said; Translated by Maia Tabet

Picador

opens in a new window
opens in a new window Little Mountain Download image

ISBN10: 0312427166
ISBN13: 9780312427160

Trade Paperback

168 Pages

$18.00

CA$19.50

Request Desk Copy
Request Exam Copy

TRADE BOOKS FOR COURSES NEWSLETTER

Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers.

Sign up now

Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury's language is poetic and piercing as he tells the story of Beirut, civil war, and fractured identity.

Reviews

Praise for Little Mountain

"Khoury's picaresque ramblings through the Lebanese landscapes offered by civil combat reveal areas of uncertainty and perturbation unthought of before."—Edward W. Said, from the Foreword

"Without a doubt the finest novel on Lebanon's [civil] war."—Le Nouvvel Observateur

"Little Mountain is above all a poem . . . Elias Khoury, like all true poets, is also a seer. Nothing tepid about these cruel pages. A lucidity equal to Rimbaud's."—Le Monde

Reviews from Goodreads

About the author

Elias Khoury; Foreword by Edward W. Said; Translated by Maia Tabet

Elias Khoury is the author of eleven novels including The Journey of Little Gandhi, The Kingdom of Strangers, and Yalo. He is a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, and editor in chief of the literary supplement of Beirut's daily newspaper, An-Nahar.

Nina Subin