City Gates
| By: | Elias Khoury |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780312427153 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781429916325 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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City Gates was first published in Arabic in 1981, and in English in 1993. It is a further exploration of the themes of exile, dislocation, and identity. Elias Khoury's early works show him finding the distinctive voice that explodes in his epic Gate of the Sun. A stranger arrives at the gates of a city from which everyone appears to have fled. The once besieged and now deserted city is Beirut. City Gates is a fable of displacement and a visionary tale about the consequences of civil war in the Middle East.