{"product_id":"no-knives-in-the-kitchens-of-this-city-paperback","title":"No Knives in the Kitchens of This City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKhaled Khalifa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLeri Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from one of the rising stars of Arab fiction-- \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set between the 1960s and 2000s, \u003ci\u003eNo Knives in the Kitchens of this City \u003c\/i\u003eunravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhaled Khalifa \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1964 in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of several novels, including most recently, \u003ci\u003eDeath Is Hard Work\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature. \u003ci\u003eNo Knives in the Kitchens of This City \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, and was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Awards in the prose category in 2017. He lives in Damascus, a city he has refused to abandon despite the danger posed by the ongoing Syrian civil war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLeri Price\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent Arabic-English translator who studied at the University of Edinburgh. She is the translator of Khaled Khalifa's \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Hatred\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath Is Hard Work\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as literature from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia including \u003ci\u003eSarab\u003c\/i\u003e by Raja Alem (Hoopoe, 2018.)\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769673777440,"sku":"9789774167812","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b0d3a617dd78e46896c2ba5f35829612.webp?v=1780353065","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/no-knives-in-the-kitchens-of-this-city-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}