Khaled Khalifa | Portland Book Review

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price

by Philip Rafferty | Jan 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, General Fiction, Historical Fiction

Khaled Khalifa’s No Knives in the Kitchens of This City is a beautiful and gut wrenching multi-generational novel centered on the time of the rise of the Ba’athist party regime in Aleppo. The destruction that the party inflicts on Syria is seen through the lives...

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price

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