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Death Is Hard Work
A Novel. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2013, Originaltitel:al-Maut 'amal saqq
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Gewicht:
304 g
Format:
217x139x18 mm
Beschreibung:
Khaled Khalifa; Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
A short novel set in Syria in the winter of 2015 as two brothers and a sister transport the body of their father through their war-torn country in order to bury him with his family.
CONTENTSONE: IF YOU WERE A SACK OF CUMIN, 3TWO: A BOUQUET FLOATING DOWN A RIVER, 63THREE: BOLBOL FLYING IN A CONFINED SPACE, 153
Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village. 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.