No knives in the kitchens of this city novel by Khaled Khalifa

"No knives in the kitchens of this city" is not just a novel but a deep excavation 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 corpse turned into scrap that must be disposed of so others can continue to live. A novel written with a shocking sensitivity and refined language that takes its readers from the first pages to fundamental questions and presents them with the harsh realities of the destruction of Arab life under regimes that desecrated their lives and destroyed their dreams. It is a novel about the dilemma of life in its deepest meanings, where novelist Khaled Khalifa returns after his masterpiece "Praise of Hatred" to openly write about the dilemma of life in its deepest meanings, and he writes about everything that is silenced in our Arab life and Syrian life in particular. It is a novel about sorrow, fear, and human death. Longlist for the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.