Roundabout of death

The Resource Roundabout of death
Label
Roundabout of death
Statement of responsibility
Faysal Khartash ; translated by Max Weiss
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  • eng
  • ara
  • eng
Summary
The central character who observes and lives through the literal disintegration and pulverising of his beautiful native city, Aleppo, is a schoolteacher. Through his eyes, in a mixture of first and third person narration, we experience the razing of entire neighbourhoods, the apparently random dropping of barrel bombs, the bewildering variety of militias and government security forces loyal to Assad, the arbitrary cruelties and the complicated journeys that people have to make simply to cross the city. The title refers to a notorious crossing point between sections of the city held by different factions. Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighbourhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks. Aleppo was home to Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Christians and other sects. The war tore those communities apart and made their city a wasteland
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Cataloging source
YDX
Dewey number
892.736
Index
no index present
Language note
Translated from the Arabic
Literary form
novels
Target audience
adult

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