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No knives in the kitchens of this city, Khaled Khalifa ; translated by Leri Price

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No knives in the kitchens of this city, Khaled Khalifa ; translated by Leri Price

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

No knives in the kitchens of this city

Oclc number

941875066

Responsibility statement

Khaled Khalifa ; translated by Leri Price

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

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