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Death Is Hard Work

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Death Is Hard Work

By Khaled Khalifa

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Abdel Latif, an old man, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. Before he dies, he tells his youngest son Bolbol that his final wish is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya in the Aleppo region. Though Abdel Latif was not the ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, he decides to persuade his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and their father's body to Anabiya - only a two-hour drive from Damascus.But the ...Show more

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ISBN

9780571346042

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2019

Language

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1

Original title

Death Is Hard Work

Format

Paperback

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