There are no knives in the kitchens of this city

Author's name: Khaled Khalifa Publisher: Dar Al Ain for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2013 Literary classification: Novel Book overview: The novel dives deep into the mechanisms of fear and disintegration over half a century, and it is also a novel about a society that lived in parallel with oppression and murdered desires, through the biography of a family that discovered all its dreams had died and turned into rubble, just as the mother's body was turned into scrap that must be disposed of so others can continue to live.