- Middle eastern philology, Middle east, fiction, Fiction, cultural heritage, New York Times reviewed
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.
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Contemporary, classical in form, relentless and overwhelming.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Khaled Khalifa
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374717643
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- Middle eastern philology
- Middle east, fiction
- Fiction, cultural heritage
- New York Times reviewed
- Families
- Fiction
- History
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / War & Military
- Civil War (Syria : 2011-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907471
- Civil War (Syria : 2011-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907471 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01907471
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