No one prayed over their graves / Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price.

Nā:

Khalīfah, Khālid, 1964- [author.]

Kaituhi:

Price, Leri [translator.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Faber & Faber, 2023Whakaahuatanga: 404 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780571364640
0571364640

Uniform titles:

Lam yusalli 'alayhim ahad. English

Ngā marau:

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

892.737 23

Summary: December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their village near Aleppo-only to discover a scene of tragedy. A devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops and places of worship, and their neighbours, families and children are nearly all dead. Their lives will never be the same. Tracing Hanna's life before and after the flood-when he embarks on a search for the meaning of life-No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a wider society on the verge of great change; from the provincial village to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the future.

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Originally published in Arabic in 2019 by Nawfal, an imprint of Hachette-Antoine, Lebanon, as Lam yusalli 'alayhim ahad.

December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their village near Aleppo-only to discover a scene of tragedy. A devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops and places of worship, and their neighbours, families and children are nearly all dead. Their lives will never be the same. Tracing Hanna's life before and after the flood-when he embarks on a search for the meaning of life-No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a wider society on the verge of great change; from the provincial village to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the future.

Translated from the Arabic.

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