The Syrian writer moves from the tragedy of the current civil war in that country, portrayed in his previous novel, Death Is Hard Work, to one from a previous era: a flood that, in 1907, swept away an entire small town on the Euphrates river near Aleppo. No One Prayed Over Their Graves, by Khaled Khalifa (FSG, July) Open this photo in gallery: There’s a fable-like quality to the story, which gives us the reactions of various townsfolk – the Cobbler’s Son, the Bucktoothed Tailor, the Old Barber, the Bonesetter, the Widow – to a spate of unnerving recent occurrences. Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday, by Jamaluddin Aram (Scribner, June)Īram, a documentary filmmaker from Kabul who now lives in Toronto, sets his novelistic debut about “peace in a time of war” in a small town in 1990s Afghanistan shortly after the withdrawal of Russian troops but after the onset of civil war.
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