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From the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village. More about this book >
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. More about this book >
Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964 near Aleppo, Syria. He studied law at Aleppo University and participated in the foundation of ALEPH magazine. A few months later, the magazine was closed down by Syrian censorship. Active in the arts scene in Damascus where he lives, Khalifa is a writer of screenplays for television and cinema as well as novels. His novel Death Is Hard Work was a Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
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