A review by xplodybrain
No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa

1.0

I 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 issued such as seemingly random appearances of unexplained yet obviously important characters can't be the work of shoddy interpretation alone.

I only got through a third of the book before giving up out of sheer frustration. No reader should have to work so hard to find the story.