No One Prayed Over Their Graves A Novel

Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price

eBook - 2023

Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Fiction | One of The Washington Post's 50 best works of fiction of 2023"Gorgeous . . . Lush, elegiac [and] Márquezian . . . A novel of abundance and generosity." —Sarah Cypher, The Washington Post"Richly embroidered . . . [Khalifa's] galloping narration restores life and soul to a city that has become a byword for devastation." —The EconomistFrom the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village.On 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... more