A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the
early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring.
'Beautiful... brings to a wider audience one of the best Syrian
novelists of his generation' TLS 'A sublime distillation of one of
the tragedies of the early twenty-first century' Independent
'Masterful... Kaleidoscopic: personal and collective, serendipitous
and fatalistic' Los Angeles Times Jumaa is a schoolteacher in
Aleppo. He observes and lives through the literal disintegration of
his beautiful native city. Through his eyes, in a mixture of first
and third person narration, we experience the razing of entire
neighbourhoods, the apparently random dropping of barrel bombs, the
bewildering variety of militias and government security forces
loyal to Assad, the arbitrary cruelties and the complicated
journeys that people have to make simply to cross the city.
Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that
obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its
neighbourhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks. Aleppo was home
to Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Christians and other sects. The war
tore those communities apart and made their city a wasteland.
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