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02217aam a2200349 i 4500 001 9F30E696DAFE11EB9BE3539D58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210702012738 008 210614s2021 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781939931924 (softcover) 020 $a 1939931924 035 $a (OCoLC)1256452616 040 $a MDB $b eng $c MDB $d OCLCO $d OCL $d IW5 $d SILO 100 1 $a Khartash, FaysÌ£al, $e author. 240 10 $a DawwaÌr Al-mawt MaÌ Bayna HÌ£alab Wa-l -Raqqa. $l English 245 10 $a Roundabout of death / $c Faysal Khartash ; translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss. 260 $a New York : $b New Vessel Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 169 pages; $c 21 cm. 500 $a First published in Arabic as DawwaÌr al-mawt maÌ bayna HÌ£alab wa-l -Raqqa in 2017. 520 $a Set in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by bombing, Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighborhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks. The novel is told from the perspective of an ordinary man, a schoolteacher of Arabic for whom even daily errands become life-threatening tasks. He experiences the wide-scale destruction wrought upon the monumental Syrian metropolis as it became the stage for a vicious struggle between warring powers. Death hovers ever closer while the teacher roams Aleppo's streets and byways, minutely observing the perils of urban life in an uncanny twist on Baudelaire's flÌneur. The novel, a literary edifice erected as an unflinching response to the erasure of a once great city, speaks eloquently of the fragmentation of human existence and the calamities of war. 650 0 $a War stories. 651 0 $a Aleppo (Syria) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Syria $x History $y Civil War, 2011- $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Weiss, Max, $d 1977- $e translator. 941 $a 6 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031448.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023714.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210903015047.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210730010033.0 952 $l VOPB384 $d 20210729011924.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210702013237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9F30E696DAFE11EB9BE3539D58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search