No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

by Khaled Khalifa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774167813
• ISBN13: 9789774167812
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Hoopoe
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"