Faysal Khartash, a winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Arabic Literature, is a leading Syrian author. He lives in his native Aleppo, has written several novels and works as a schoolteacher while contributing to Syrian newspapers.
“De Moor’s novel is encased in calm, its surfaces appearing to be safe—until they suddenly crack open like thin ice beneath our feet. A beautiful, mysterious and shocking book.”
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Nancy Kline, author of The Faithful and Lightning: The Poetry of René Char
Faysal Khartash
