The Resource Death is hard work, Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
Death is hard work, Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
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- Summary
- 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. Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is--after all--only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone. With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings' decision to set aside their differences and honor their father's request quickly balloons from a minor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria, however, is no longer a place for heroes, and the decisions the family must make along the way--as they find themselves captured and recaptured, interrogated, imprisoned, and bombed--will prove to have enormous consequences for all of them
- Language
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- eng
- ara
- eng
- Edition
- First American edition
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374135737
- Label
- Death is hard work
- Title
- Death is hard work
- Statement of responsibility
- Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
- Subject
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- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / War & Military
- Families
- Families -- Syria -- Fiction
- Families -- Syria -- Fiction
- Fiction
- History
- 2011
- Syria
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction
- War fiction
- War fiction
- War stories
- War stories
- Syria
- Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
- Language
-
- eng
- ara
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is--after all--only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone. With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings' decision to set aside their differences and honor their father's request quickly balloons from a minor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria, however, is no longer a place for heroes, and the decisions the family must make along the way--as they find themselves captured and recaptured, interrogated, imprisoned, and bombed--will prove to have enormous consequences for all of them
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Khalīfah, Khālid
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Arabic
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Price, Leri,
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
- Families
- Syria
- Families
- Syria
- Syria
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / War & Military
- Label
- Death is hard work, Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1036202550
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First American edition
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374135737
- Lccn
- 2018033289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036202550
- Label
- Death is hard work, Khaled Khalifa ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1036202550
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First American edition
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374135737
- Lccn
- 2018033289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036202550
Subject
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / War & Military
- Families
- Families -- Syria -- Fiction
- Families -- Syria -- Fiction
- Fiction
- History
- 2011
- Syria
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction
- War fiction
- War fiction
- War stories
- War stories
- Syria
- Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
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