Khaled Khalifa

Books on prize lists

• الموت عمل شاق

  In English

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  National Book Award 2019 · Finalist

  Death Is Hard Work

  الموت عمل شاق · Al-Mawt 'amal shaqq

  Khaled Khalifa · 52 when first published

  Novel · 192 pages · War, Family

  Translated by Leri Price

  AIAI-generated summary:Two brothers and a sister drive their father's body from Damascus to his home village through a Syria at war, to honour his wish to be buried there.

• لا سكاكين في مطابخ هذه المدينة

  In English

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  IPAF 2014 · Shortlist

  No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

  لا سكاكين في مطابخ هذه المدينة · La Sakakin fi Matabikh Hadhihi al-Madina

  Khaled Khalifa · 49 when first published

  Novel · 224 pages · Family, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Over half a century of dictatorship in Syria, the members of one family in Aleppo watch every one of their dreams die, living side by side with fear, oppression and stifled desires.

• مديح الكراهية

  In English

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  IPAF 2008 · Shortlist

  In Praise of Hatred

  مديح الكراهية · Madih al-karahiya

  Khaled Khalifa · 42 when first published

  Novel · 299 pages · Politics, Family, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:In Aleppo in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a young woman grows up in a house of unmarried aunts as the fight between Islamists and the Syrian regime fills the city with hatred.