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Ali, a 19-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole—is this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion, wasn’t there…. While trying to understand the extend of the damage, Ali works his way closer to the tree. His ultimate desire is to fly up to one of its branches, to safety. More about this book >
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 >
Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. She finds refuge in a fantasy world full of colored crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of the Qur’an like a mantra as everything and everyone around her is blown to bits. 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 >
Leri Price is an award-winning literary translator of contemporary Arabic fiction. She has been a Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature three times, in 2024 and 2021 for her translations of Samar Yazbek’s Where the Wind Calls Home and Planet of Clay, and in 2019 for Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work. Her translation of Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work also won the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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