{"product_id":"the-journey-of-little-gandhi","title":"The Journey of Little Gandhi","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Journey of Little Gandhi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eElias Khoury\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780312427177\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury.\"--Laila Lalami, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eGate of the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eand \"one of the most innovative novelists in the Arab World\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e) comes the many-layered story of Little Gandhi, or Abd Al-Karim, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIngeniously embedding stories within stories, \u003ci\u003eLittle Gandhi \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes the story of a city, Beirut, in the grip of civil war. Once again, as John Leonard wrote in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Elias Khoury \"fills in the blank spaces on the Middle Eastern map in our Western heads.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"The Journey of Little Gandhi | Elias Khoury | Paperback | 9780312427177 | New | Fiction 1649731","offer_id":50712414093570,"sku":"1649731","price":31.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81_yFPn8ydL.jpg?v=1791756553","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-journey-of-little-gandhi","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}