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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khalīfah, Khālid, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Arabic.
Published: Cairo, Egypt ; New York : Hoopoe, 2016.
Subjects:
Political persecution > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Syria > Politics and government > 20th century > Fiction.
Political fiction.
Historical fiction.

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