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Death Is Hard Work
Taschenbuch von Khaled Khalifa
Sprache: Englisch

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
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 the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.

Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is-after all-only a two-hour drive from Damascus.

There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.

With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings' decision to set aside their differences and honor their father's request quickly balloons from a minor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria, however, is no longer a place for heroes, and the decisions the family must make along the way-as they find themselves captured and recaptured, interrogated, imprisoned, and bombed-will prove to have enormous consequences for all of them.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
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 the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.

Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is-after all-only a two-hour drive from Damascus.

There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.

With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings' decision to set aside their differences and honor their father's request quickly balloons from a minor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria, however, is no longer a place for heroes, and the decisions the family must make along the way-as they find themselves captured and recaptured, interrogated, imprisoned, and bombed-will prove to have enormous consequences for all of them.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

ONE: IF YOU WERE A SACK OF CUMIN, 3

TWO: A BOUQUET FLOATING DOWN A RIVER, 63

THREE: BOLBOL FLYING IN A CONFINED SPACE, 153

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781250251077
ISBN-10: 1250251079
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Khalifa, Khaled
Übersetzung: Price, Leri
Hersteller: Wattpad Webtoon Book Group
Maße: 207 x 135 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Khaled Khalifa
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,166 kg
preigu-id: 121006884
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

ONE: IF YOU WERE A SACK OF CUMIN, 3

TWO: A BOUQUET FLOATING DOWN A RIVER, 63

THREE: BOLBOL FLYING IN A CONFINED SPACE, 153

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781250251077
ISBN-10: 1250251079
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Khalifa, Khaled
Übersetzung: Price, Leri
Hersteller: Wattpad Webtoon Book Group
Maße: 207 x 135 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Khaled Khalifa
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,166 kg
preigu-id: 121006884
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