- National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019 · Finalist · for the translation by Leri Price
Death Is Hard Work
الموت عمل شاق · Al-Mawt 'amal shaqq
Khaled Khalifa (خالد خليفة, born 1964)
Translated by Leri Price
English editions
In EnglishDeath Is Hard Work
Faber & Faber · United Kingdom · 2020 · Paperback · 192 pages
Death Is Hard Work
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 12 February 2019 · Hardcover · 192 pages
Death Is Hard Work
Picador · United States · 3 December 2019 · Paperback · 192 pages
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A car heads from Damascus to the village of Anabiya carrying a corpse and three silent siblings, while a ferocious war rages outside. To bury their father in his village as he wished, they must pass checkpoint after checkpoint, and the barriers between the three of them are no easier to cross.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- War, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Syria, 2010s
- First published
- 2016 by Dar Nawfal
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
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9780374135737 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9781250251077 (Picador, United States)
9780571346059 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)
- More
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