No one prayed over their graves
Khalīfah, Khālid, 1964-2023
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On a terrible December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the city, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbours, families, children-nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are levelled. Their lives will never be the same. Hanna was once a wealthy libertine landowner who had built a famed citadel devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and excess. But with the loss of his home, wife, and community, he transforms, becoming an ascetic mystic obsessed with investigating the meaning of life. In No One Prayed Over Their Graves, we follow Hanna's life before and after the flood, tracing friendships, loves and lusts, family and business, until he is just one thread in the rich tapestry of Aleppo. Khaled Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century. No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a people 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.
Main title:
No one prayed over their graves / Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price.
Author:
Khalīfah, Khālid, 1964-, authorPrice, Leri, translator
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2023.©2023
Collation:
404 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published in Arabic in 2019 by Naufal, an imprint of Hachette-Antoine, Lebanon, as Lam yuṣall ʻalayhim aḥad.Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
97805713646409780571364640 (paperback)
Dewey class:
892.737
LC class:
PJ7942.H343
Language:
EnglishArabic
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
770519
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | KHAL | Available |