"Elias Khoury’s picaresque ramblings through the Lebanese landscapes offered by civil combat reveal areas of uncertainty and perturbation unthought of before."

--EDWARD W. SAID, from the Foreword

"Without a doubt the finest novel on Lebanon’s [civil] war."

--LE NO UVEL OBSERVATE UR

"Little Mountain is above all a poem Elias Khoury, like all true poets, is also a seer. Nothing tepid about these cruel pages. A lucidity equal to Rimbaud’s."

--LE MONDE

Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury’s language is poetic and piercing as he tells the story of Beirut, civil war, and fractured identity.

Foreword by Edward W. SAID

Chapter 1. LITTLE MOUNTAIN

Chapter 2. The CHURCH

Chapter 3. The LAST OPTION

Chapter 4. The STAIRS

Chapter 5. The KING’S SQUARE

Maps

Lebanon

Beirut

Bab Idriss Quarter