Roundabout of Death

Name: Roundabout of Death
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Roundabout of DeathAuthor(s): Faysal Khartash\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Apollo\nISBN-13: 9781801107266, 978-1801107266\nSynopsis\nA powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring. \n'Beautiful... brings to a wider audience one of the best Syrian novelists of his generation' TLS \n\n'A sublime distillation of one of the tragedies of the early twenty-first century' Independent \n\n'Masterful... Kaleidoscopic: personal and collective, serendipitous and fatalistic' Los Angeles Times\n\nJumaa 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 arbitr.