Title: Yalo
Description: Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern "Thousand and One Nights", a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all of his sorrows, all of his guilt - and other crimes which his interrogators need him to confess to.
Subjects: Torture, Fiction, Confession (Law), History, Lebanon, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, war & military
Places: Lebanon
Time periods: Civil War, 1975-1990, 1990-