No One Prayed Over Their Graves
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Review: ‘No One Prayed Over Their Graves’ by Khaled Khalifa is a complex epic
CHICAGO: This epic work from award-winning Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, translated into English by Leri Price, spans several decades —…
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The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature
This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2023 National Book Awards. This morning, we presented the…
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Khaled Khalifa’s No One Prayed Over Their Graves
From the first, the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa scores his latest for full orchestra. The opening page considers the grim…
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Book review: Khaled Khalifa weaves poetry and history into this Syrian epic
In No One Prayed Over Their Graves, faith and politics intertwine with the personal in a tale of friends and…
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No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa – a Syrian epic
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of modern Syria’s birth pangs, this saga of friendship, freedom and tragedy celebrates Aleppo’s lost…
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After a Great Flood, a Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Khaled Khalifa’s new novel follows two friends through disaster and religious tension in early-20th-century Syria. The Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa’s…
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Khaled Khalifa: ‘All the places of my childhood are destroyed’
Khaled Khalifa is a Syrian novelist, poet and screenwriter whose work has been awarded the Naguib Mahfouz medal for literature,…
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No One Prayed Over Their Graves: Syrian life threatened by final days of Ottoman rule
Khalid Khalifa paints a portrait of a Syria on the edge of great change (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In his…
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Khaled Khalifa’s “No One Prayed Over Their Graves”: The maelstrom of Aleppo
Some literary works can become astonishingly topical over the course of time – even though it might not have been…
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Khaled Khalifa erzählt in seinem Roman „Keiner betetet an ihren Gräbern“ die jüngere Geschichte Aleppos.
Manches belletristische Werk kann, auch wenn es nicht unbedingt in der Absicht des Autors liegt, angesichts der Zeitläufte erstaunliche Brisanz…
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