Salim at his desk with a pen in hand, framed calligraphy and shelves of books behind him

Salim Khoury

Novelist and essayist · Beirut

I write about small towns and the people no one writes about. My third novel, “A House by the Tracks”, came out this autumn.

The new novel

A House by the Tracks

A family waits for a train that stopped running forty years ago. [Publisher] · 240 pages

Order your copyRead the first chapter

Elsewhere

  1. 01“Letters from the Third Floor”My weekly column in [Newspaper]
  2. 02On novels and small townsIn conversation on the [Podcast] podcast
  3. 03Readings and signingsBeirut and Amman · [Dates]
  4. 04Translation and rightsFor publishers and literary agents

The Sunday Letter

A short letter every Sunday: what I’m reading, what I’m writing, and a line that found no place in the novel.

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