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No One Prayed Over Their Graves

No One Prayed Over Their Graves - Paperback

by Khaled Khalifa
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Availability:In StockContributor:Khaled Khalifa, Leri PricePublish date:2024-07-16Pages:416
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador PaperISBN-13:9781250872876ISBN-10:1250872871UPC:9781250872876Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, FriendshipAward:2023 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation AwardSize:8.25 x 5.38 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.1Product ID:SC8GW76BF1

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 Washington Post

"Richly embroidered . . . [Khalifa's] galloping narration restores life and soul to a city that has become a byword for devastation." --The Economist

From the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village.

On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the city, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbors, families, children--nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same.

Hanna was once a wealthy libertine, a landowner who built a famed citadel devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and excess. But with the loss of his home, wife, and community, he transforms, becoming an ascetic mystic obsessed with death and the meaning of life. In No One Prayed Over Their Graves, we follow Hanna's life before and after the flood, tracing friendships, loves and lusts, family and business, until he is just one thread in the rich tapestry of Aleppo.

Khaled Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century. No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a people on the verge of great change--from provincial villages to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the future.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador PaperISBN-13:9781250872876ISBN-10:1250872871UPC:9781250872876Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, FriendshipAward:2023 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation AwardSize:8.25 x 5.38 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.1Product ID:SC8GW76BF1

Khaled Khalifa (1964-2023) was born near Aleppo, Syria, the fifth child of a family of thirteen siblings. He studied law at Aleppo University and actively participated in the foundation of Aleph magazine with a group of writers and poets. A few months later, the magazine was closed down by Syrian censorship. Active in the arts scene in Damascus where he lived, Khalifa was a writer of screenplays for television and cinema as well as novels that explore Syrian history. His 2019 novel Death Is Hard Work was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Leri Price is the translator of Khaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work, In Praise of Hatred, and No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, as well as literature from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Publisher: Picador Paper

Awards

🏆 2023 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award

Contributor(s)

Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price

Author

Khaled Khalifa

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