A novel that digs into the narratives of the region, and proposes a new and different narrative for the city of Aleppo in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, through intertwined stories of faithful love, certain death through massacres, plague, earthquakes and cholera, and the concept of identity and belonging and their questions.
It is not just a novel about a Christian child who survived a massacre in Mardin, being raised by a Muslim family in Aleppo, but rather a true human epic about the flood and human anxiety, about the illusion of escaping from this flood and epidemics, and about the dilemma of life itself.
Small destinies lead us to a greater destiny for the city of Aleppo, which has witnessed throughout its long history profound social, political and religious transformations, monitored by Khalifa with new techniques, in this epic inhabited by the dichotomy of love and death.
Book information
- ISBN:9786144694367
- Publisher: Hachette Antoine – Nawfal (2019)
- Original title: Lam yusil ‘alayhum ahad (لم يُصلّ عليهم أحد)
- Original publication date: 2019 (Arabic)
- Order Arabic:
Translations
| Language | Publisher | Date | Title | Translator | ISBN | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italian | Bompiani | 2021 | Nessuno ha pregato per loro | Elena Chiti | 9788830102675 | Paperback Kindle |
| Norwegian | Pax | 2021 | Ingen ba for dem | Oda Myran Winsnes | 9788253042435 | Paperback |
| German | Rowohlt | 2022 | Keiner betete an ihren Gräbern | Larissa Bender | 9783498002046 | Hardcover Kindle |
| English (World) | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2023 | No One Prayed Over Their Graves | Leri Price | 9780374601928 | Hardcover Kindle |
| English (UK) | Faber | 2023 | No One Prayed Over Their Graves | Leri Price | 9780571364640 | Paperback |
