{"product_id":"roundabout-of-death-9781939931924","title":"Roundabout of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable book, a vivid testimonial to the horrors of the Syrian civil war.\"--\u003cb\u003eRobert F. Worth, author of \u003ci\u003eA Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by bombing, \u003ci\u003eRoundabout of Death\u003c\/i\u003e offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighborhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks. The novel is told from the perspective of an ordinary man, a schoolteacher of Arabic for whom even daily errands become life-threatening tasks. He experiences the wide-scale destruction wrought upon the monumental Syrian metropolis as it became the stage for a vicious struggle between warring powers. Death hovers ever closer while the teacher roams Aleppo's streets and byways, minutely observing the perils of urban life in an uncanny twist on Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003efl neur\u003c\/i\u003e. The novel, a literary edifice erected as an unflinching response to the erasure of a once great city, speaks eloquently of the fragmentation of human existence and the calamities of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Vessel Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939931924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faysal Khartash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39816833794229,"sku":"9781939931924","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_18ec6ca5-1e41-4fa6-9f29-29a748b9eb7e.jpg?v=1618927237","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/roundabout-of-death-9781939931924","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}