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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City
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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

A Novel
BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF23.90

Description

In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family collapses into tragedy and ruin. The mother, abandoned by her husband, struggles to raise her children alone. Her daughter Sawsan flirts with the militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. All are slowly choked in the fog of violence and decay, as their lives are plundered and their dreams wrecked by the brutal Assad regime.
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ISBN/GTIN978-977-416-781-2
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publication countryEgypt
Publishing date15/10/2016
Pages224 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 127 mm, Height 203 mm, Thickness 20 mm
Weight216 g
Article no.25495890
Publisher's article no.11689
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.19691264
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964 in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of several novels, including most recently, Death Is Hard Work, longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature. No Knives in the Kitchens of This City was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, and was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association´s National Translation Awards in the prose category in 2017. He lives in Damascus, a city he has refused to abandon despite the danger posed by the ongoing Syrian civil war.

Leri Price is a literary translator based in the UK. In 2017, her translation of Khaled Khalifa´s No Knives in the Kitchens of This City (Hoopoe, 2016) was short-listed for both the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)´s National Translation Awards and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.