{"product_id":"9781429988384","title":"The Journey of Little Gandhi","description":"\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\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122438062320,"sku":"9781429988384","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429988384_p0.jpg?v=1769903809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429988384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}