{"id":266056,"date":"2008-11-14T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/11\/14\/siddhartha-deb-on-elias-khoury\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:37","slug":"siddhartha-deb-on-elias-khoury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/11\/14\/siddhartha-deb-on-elias-khoury\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddhartha Deb on Elias Khoury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siddhartha Deb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20081201\/deb\">reviews<\/a> Elias Khoury&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archipelagobooks.org\/bk.php?id=6\"><em>Yalo<\/em><\/a> for <em>The Nation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Yalo, the tenth novel by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, is such a book. Published in Arabic in 2002 and now available in a translation by Peter Theroux, Yalo is set in 1993 and revolves around a single consciousness unable to make sense of itself or its surroundings. Its opening sentence is &#8220;Yalo did not understand what was happening,&#8221; and its closing line is &#8220;And if I don&#8217;t find the end of the story, how will I be able to write it?&#8221; In between lies a work that is both one story and several, perpetually revised under the torque of history, memory, desire, fear, understanding and loathing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siddhartha Deb reviews Elias Khoury&#8217;s Yalo for The Nation: In Yalo, the tenth novel by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, is such a book. Published in Arabic in 2002 and now available in a translation by Peter Theroux, Yalo is set in 1993 and revolves around a single consciousness unable to make sense of itself or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,2526,1646,3916],"class_list":["post-266056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-elias-khoury","tag-review","tag-siddhartha-deb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325176,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266056\/revisions\/325176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}