No Knives in the Kitchens of This City : A Novel Alan Chong Joseph Heller captures the insanity

Joseph Heller captures the insanity and absurdity of war through biting satire

The year is 1327

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Based on digitised historical newspapers

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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City : A Novel Alan Chong Joseph Heller captures the insanityIn the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family collapses into tragedy and ruin. The mother, abandoned by her husband, struggles to raise her children alone. Her daughter Sawsan flirts with the militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. All are slowly choked in the fog of violence and decay, as their lives are plundered and their dreams wrecked by the brutal Assad regime. Set between the 1960s and