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The transportation of a corpse has been the framework for storytelling ranging from Faulkner's classic novel As I Lay Dying to the decidedly less classic film Weekend at Bernie's -- it's a plot mechanism that can serve all manner of genres and scenarios. In this contemporary Syrian novel, the corpse is that of an old man whose three adult children are attempting to drive him 250 miles from Damascus to the family's ancestral village outside Aleppo, so that his dying wish to be buried next to his
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