Khalifa Khaled - No Knives In The Kitchens Of This City A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s and 2000s No Knives in the Kitchens of this City unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty it speaks of the persecution of a whole society.
Title: No Knives In The Kitchens Of This City A Novel
Author(s): Khalifa Khaled
Publisher: The American University In Cairo Press
Barcode: 9789774167812
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 10/15/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction