No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khalifa, Khaled

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789774167812)

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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khalifa, Khaled

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

$17.95
No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khalifa, Khaled

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE

In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from "one of the rising stars of Arab fiction" (New York Times)


Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime.


Set between the 1960s and 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society.


Author: Khaled Khalifa
ISBN-10: 9774167813
ISBN-13: 9789774167812
Publisher: Hoopoe
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.70d
By Khaled Khalifa
By Khaled Khalifa
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Khaled Khalifa (1964-2023) was born in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of several novels, including 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.

Leri Price is an independent Arabic-English translator who studied at the University of Edinburgh. She is the translator of Khaled Khalifa's In Praise of Hatred and Death Is Hard Work, as well as literature from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia including Sarab by Raja Alem (Hoopoe, 2018.)

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