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A novel that delves into the region's narratives, proposing a new and different narrative of the city of Aleppo in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, through intertwined stories of stillborn love, certain death through massacres, plague, earthquakes, and cholera, and the concept of identity and belonging and their questions. It is not just a novel about a Christian child who survived a massacre in Mardin, raised by a Muslim family in Aleppo, but rather a true human epic about the flood and human anxiety, about the illusion of survival from this flood and epidemics, and about the predicament of life itself. Small destinies lead us to the greater destiny of the city of Aleppo, which witnessed, throughout its long history, profound social, political, and religious transformations, which Khalifa monitors with new techniques, in this epic haunted by the duality of love and death. A novel that delves into the narratives of the region, proposing a new and different narrative for the city of Aleppo in the 19th and mid-20th century, through interwoven stories about promised love, inevitable death through massacres, plagues, earthquakes, and cholera, and the concept of identity and belonging along with the questions they raise. It is not just a novel about a Christian child who survived a massacre in Mardin and was raised by a Muslim family in Aleppo, but a real human epic about the flood and human anxiety, the illusion of survival from this flood and epidemics, and the predicament of life itself. The individual's destinies determine the fate of the whole city of Aleppo, which has witnessed deep social, political, and religious transformations throughout its long history, and which Khalifa observes with new techniques focusing on the duality of love and death.