Death Is Hard Work: A Novel

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Synopsis
National Book Award Finalist: “The poetic and horrific combine in this tale of love and death set in a Syria torn apart by civil war” (Guardian, UK).As elderly Abdel Latif dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus, he relays his final wish to his youngest son Bolbol: to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, he 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.One of Syria’s most acclaimed literary voices, Khaled Khalifa was the greatest chronicler of his country’s catastrophic civil war. In Death is Hard Work, he delivers a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for LiteratureFinalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
138 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374717643
Related ISBNs:
9780374135737
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Khaled Khalifa
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Military, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Leri Price

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