Beirut’s Travels
January 10, 2010 at 3:14 pm 3 comments
“.. Beirut itself travels. You stay where you are and it travels.. Look at Beirut, transforming from the Switzerland of the East to Hong Kong, to Saigon, to Calcutta, to Sri Lanka. It’s as if we circled the world in ten or twenty years. We stayed where we are and the world circled around us.”
Caption from a book I’m reading now called “Little Gandhi” by Elias Khoury. The book recounts the experiences of a shoe shiner on Bliss Street, an aging prostitute and a curious observer during Beirut’s civil war.
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Entry filed under: Floating. Tags: beirut, Civil War, Elias Khoury, Little Gandhi, prostitute, shoe shiner, Travel, world.
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Gateaux | January 11, 2010 at 12:08 am
Interesting how the comparisons he likens Beirut to start at Switzerland and end up in Sri Lanka.
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mariam | January 11, 2010 at 5:59 am
I’m reading ‘City Gates’ by him now! Let me know if you like ‘Little Gandhi’ when you finish it.
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Lorena | January 11, 2010 at 11:03 am
So far so good Mimo
I’m enjoying his writing style.. though at times confusing.. How’s “City Gates”?