No knives in the kitchens of this city / Khaled Khalifa ; translated by Leri Price
By: Khalīfah, Khālid [author].
Contributor(s): Price, Leri [translator].
Publisher: Cairo, Egypt ; New York : Hoopoe, an imprint of AUC Press, 2016Description: 219 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789774167812.Uniform titles: Lā sakākīn fī maṭābikh hadhihi al-madīnah. English Subject(s): Political persecution -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Syria -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy and ruin between the 1960s and 2000s. 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| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PJ7942.H343 L313 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007893 |
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In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy and ruin between the 1960s and 2000s. 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
Translated from the Arabic