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Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. In Death Is Hard Work a funeral journey becomes a story of borders, war and dignity. Samar Yazbek pairs a nonfiction account of war with the experimental novel Planet of Clay. Zakaria Tamer and Nihad Sirees add short fiction and satire on oppressive power.
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Three siblings try to transport their father’s body across war-torn Syria.
Original title: الموت عمل شاق (Al-mawt amal shaq)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Translated by Leri Price
Edition source ↗An Aleppo family’s lives show dictatorship eroding relationships, desires and dignity.
Original title: لا سكاكين في مطابخ هذه المدينة
The author’s returns to war-torn Syria connect civilian testimony with the experience of exile.
Original title: بوابات أرض العدم
Rima recounts wartime Damascus through an inner world of imagination and poetic images.
Original title: المشاءة
Grotesque stories and parables explore people’s subjugation through fear, violence and power.
Original title: النمور في اليوم العاشر
A writer tries to preserve private freedom during a deafening celebration of a dictator.
Original title: الصمت والصخب
A young Syrian woman grows up amid family confinement and religious and political conflict.
After a devastating flood, two friends seek meaning in the changing world around Aleppo.
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