Khaled Khalifa

• Apr-2014
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In 1980s Syria, a young Muslim girl lives a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents. Her three aunts -- the pious Maryam, the liberal Safaa, and the free-spirited Marwa -- raise her with the aid of their ever-...

• Oct-2016
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WINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREIn 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 p...

• Feb-2019
• / Literary
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A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa’s DEATH IS HARD WORK is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria’s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down t...

• Jul-2023
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Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Fiction | One of The Washington Post's 50 best works of fiction of 2023“Gorgeous . . . Lush, elegiac [and] Márquezian . . . A novel of abundance and generosity.” -- Sarah Cypher, The Wa...