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RSVP here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This month, the TMR Book Club is reading and discussing\u00a0No One Prayed Over Their Graves<\/em> by Khaled Khalifa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LONGLISTED FOR THE<\/span>\u00a02023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED FICTION
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\n\u201cGorgeous . . . Lush, elegiac [and] M\u00e1rquezian . . . A novel of abundance and generosity.\u201d \u2014Sarah Cypher,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em><\/strong>
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\n\u201cRichly embroidered . . . [Khalifa\u2019s] galloping narration restores life and soul to a city that has become a byword for devastation.\u201d \u2014The Economist<\/em><\/strong>
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\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.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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\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\u2014nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same.<\/p>\n

Hanna 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\u00a0No One Prayed Over Their Graves<\/em>, we follow Hanna\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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Khaled Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century.\u00a0No One Prayed Over Their Graves<\/em>\u00a0is a portrait of a people on the verge of great change\u2014from 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.<\/p>\n

Published by\u00a0MacMillan<\/a>\u00a0in the US and\u00a0Faber<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

RSVP here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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