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Death Is Hard Work

Khaled Khalifa

2015

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Three siblings drive their father's body across the checkpoints of wartime Syria to bury him at home.

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A Syrian novelist who stayed in Damascus through the war, writing about the regime's violence despite bans and danger; a Naguib Mahfouz Medal laureate.

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