The Clothesline Swing by Danny Ramadan is a profoundly abstract contemporary novel about a Syrian refugee couple who fled the war in their country to migrate to Canada. Now they are old and frail men, one of whom is nearing death. The unnamed lovers, 'the hakawati' (storyteller) and the artist trade stories and relive traumatic memories of their war-bridled past, with Death himself as their companion. This book was both beautifully poetic and extremely angering. It was one of the most in-depth books I've read all year.