{"product_id":"no-knives-in-the-kitchens-of-this-city-9789774167812","title":"No Knives in the Kitchens of This City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from \"one of the rising stars of Arab fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet between the 1960s and 2000s, \u003ci\u003eNo Knives in the Kitchens of this City \u003c\/i\u003eunravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhaled Khalifa \u003c\/b\u003e(1964-2023) was born in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of several novels, including\u003ci\u003e Death Is Hard Work\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature. \u003ci\u003eNo Knives in the Kitchens of This City \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, and was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Awards in the prose category in 2017. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeri Price\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent Arabic-English translator who studied at the University of Edinburgh. She is the translator of Khaled Khalifa's \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Hatred\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath Is Hard Work\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as literature from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia including \u003ci\u003eSarab\u003c\/i\u003e by Raja Alem (Hoopoe, 2018.)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hoopoe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528548225298,"sku":"9789774167812","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c38bb3d-d481-4a61-8564-b36f09d3f641.jpg?v=1731330038","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-knives-in-the-kitchens-of-this-city-9789774167812","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}