Lit in Translation

Elias Khoury

إلياس خوري

Born 1948 · Lebanon

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    IPAF 2017 · Shortlist

    Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam

    أولاد الغيتو - اسمي آدم · Awlad al-ghitu: Ismi Adam

    Elias Khoury · 68 when first published

    Novel · Historical, War · Awlad al-ghitu, book 1

    AI-generated summary:In New York, Adam Dannoun, a Palestinian emigrant, abandons the novel he is trying to write and turns to his own story: a childhood in Lydda, whose people were driven out in 1948.