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A short novel set in Syria in the winter of 2015 as two brothers and a sister transport the body of their father through their war-torn country in order to bury him with his family.

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Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village. With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings´ decision to set aside their differences and honor their father´s request quickly balloons from a minor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest.

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