Little Mountain

Elias Khoury · 1948–2024 · Lebanon

Originally Al-Jabal al-Saghir (Arabic) · translated by Maia Tabet

Why it matters

Fragmented, overlapping voices recall the Lebanese civil war's first eruptions in Beirut's Christian quarter, memory shattering along with the city itself. Khoury's spare, experimental first novel, published with an introduction by Edward Said.

At a glance

Fragmented, non-chronological narration across multiple unnamed voices resists a single throughline.