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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses Khaled Khalifa's "No One Prayed Over Their Graves"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here. \nThis month\, the TMR Book Club is reading and discussing No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa. \n  \nLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED FICTION\n\n“Gorgeous . . . Lush\, elegiac [and] Márquezian . . . A novel of abundance and generosity.” —Sarah Cypher\, The Washington Post\n\n“Richly embroidered . . . [Khalifa’s] galloping narration restores life and soul to a city that has become a byword for devastation.” —The Economist\n\nFrom the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa\, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village. \n\n\nOn a December morning in 1907\, two close friends\, Hanna and Zakariya\, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the city\, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbors\, families\, children—nearly all of them are dead. Their homes\, shops\, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same. \nHanna was once a wealthy libertine\, a landowner who built a famed citadel devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and excess. But with the loss of his home\, wife\, and community\, he transforms\, becoming an ascetic mystic obsessed with death and the meaning of life. In No One Prayed Over Their Graves\, we follow Hanna’s life before and after the flood\, tracing friendships\, loves and lusts\, family and business\, until he is just one thread in the rich tapestry of Aleppo. \n  \nKhaled Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century. No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a people on the verge of great change—from provincial villages to the burgeoning modernity of the city\, where Christians\, Muslims\, and Jews live and work together\, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the future. \nPublished by MacMillan in the US and Faber in the UK. We meet to discuss the book on Sunday\, Oct. 29 at 2 pm Eastern/19:00 CET. This event has been organized in collaboration with Afikra. \nRSVP here.
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