No knives in the kitchens of this city /
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 an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Arabic. |
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Cairo, Egypt ; New York :
Hoopoe,
2016.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 219 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9774167813 9789774167812 |