No Knives in the Kitchens of This City | 
I have wanted to read this ever since hearing Jenny talk about it, including on a recent episode of her @ReadingEnvy podcast. And now I've just seen a review here on Litsy where somebody said it was the best book they'd ever read. I must get to it soon!
pick"Cities die, just like people."
A difficult story of the city of Aleppo from 1960s-2000, through the eyes of members of one family.
#TBRTemptation #bookmail Really looking forward to this novel about Aleppo. It was out of stock on Amazon for weeks! I'll read this for my #borders2017 reading project.
Pittsburgh's City of Asylum, a nonprofit program providing sanctuary for exiled writers, opened a bookstore. Clearly, they deserve all of my money. (And their emphasis on translated-to-English works is outstanding.) http://cityofasylum.org/about/
bailedI really wanted to like this book. So little is out there that offers such an intimate view of Aleppo in what would ideally be an easily accessible format. Was it a failure of translation? I suspect that some fault may lie there, but issues such as seemingly random appearances of unexplained yet obviously important characters can't be the work of shoddy interpretation alone.
No reader should have to work so hard to find the story.
We mourn for Aleppo. This novel paints a picture of a world, now in ruins, just a few years before the Syrian civil war. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/books/review-no-knives-in-the-kitchens-of-this... #diversereads
pickVery interesting. Shows how easily a person could become radicalized even against their better judgment.
