Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964, in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of four novels, including
In Praise of Hatred, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and
No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013. He lives in Damascus, a city he has refused to abandon despite the danger posed by the ongoing civil war.
A sweeping tale of life and death, set in the Syrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century from the International prize winning author of Death is HardWork and In Praise of Hatred."A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer." Hisham Matar-
December, 1907: one morning...
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