{"product_id":"the-journey-of-little-gandhi-9780312427177","title":"The Journey of Little Gandhi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury.\"--Laila Lalami, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eGate of the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eand \"one of the most innovative novelists in the Arab World\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e) comes the many-layered story of Little Gandhi, or Abd Al-Karim, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIngeniously embedding stories within stories, \u003ci\u003eLittle Gandhi \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes the story of a city, Beirut, in the grip of civil war. Once again, as John Leonard wrote in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Elias Khoury \"fills in the blank spaces on the Middle Eastern map in our Western heads.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIAS KHOURY \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of twelve novels including \u003ci\u003eGate of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYalo, Little Mountain \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCity Gates\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eAn-Nahar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50319269069074,"sku":"9780312427177","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_501f5156-20fa-4e26-ba98-4d5852464b83.jpg?v=1727566613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-journey-of-little-gandhi-9780312427177","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}