However you feel about crime and punishment, “Yalo” will make for difficult reading. In one awful scene, he is forced to sit upon a broken bottle and write his confession out by hand.

Elias Khoury's Yalo is a novel that is heavy on passion, blood, and violence. Definitely not for the squeamish reader. At the outset, we are introduced to Daniel, but more fondly known as Yalo.

Daniel is a Lebanese man born in Beirut, who is also known as Yalo. The novel takes us through Yalo's life. He's been arrested and charged with crimes ranging from rape and theft, to terrorism and ...

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