Yalo
Contributors: Peter Theroux (Translator)
Publisher: Archipelago Books; Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780979333040
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Essays; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: Yalo is a young man 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 and imprisoned. He is forced to confess to crimes of which he has no recollection. As he writes, and rewrites, he begins to grasp his family's past and recall all that his psyche has buried, and the true Yalo begins to emerge--Publisher.