Gate of the sun = Bab el shams
In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Dr. Khaleel, who nurses Yunis, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. In an attempt to revive his patient, Khaleel, like a modern-day Scheherazade, relates the story of the Palestinian people's exile in Lebanon while also recalling Yunis's own extraordinary life and his love for his wife, whom he meets secretly over the years at Bab al-Shams, the Gate of the sun
Print Book, English, 2005
Harvill Secker, London, 2005