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September 22, 2015
NRC Handelsblad Cultuur reviews Khalifa’s “There are no knives”: “Feeling the ground fall from under our feet”

NRC Handelsblad Cultuur reviews Khalifa’s “There are no knives”: “Feeling the ground fall from under our feet”

ThereAreNoKnives-Cover-DeGeusA review by Margot Djikgraaf, for NRC Handelsblad, April 22, 2015

“Characters are staged at a breakneck pace, disappear and reappear, while previously described events come along again, as if in a spiral that will make the reader lose grip of the story, and feeling the ground fall from under her feet. This is exactly Khalifa’s purpose. This is the life of Aleppo’s residents”

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