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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 336
Utgivningsdatum: 2021-11-18
Utmärkelser: Commended for National Book Awards (Translation) 2021
Förlag: World Editions Ltd
Översättare: Leri Price
Dimensioner: 202 x 126 x 26 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9781642861013

Planet of Clay

av Samar Yazbek

Häftad, Engelska, 2021-11-18

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Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of the Qur'an like a mantra as everything and everyone around her is blown to bits. Since Rima hardly ever speaks, people think she's crazy, but she is no fool - the madness is in the battered city around her. One day while taking a bus through Damascus, a soldier opens fire and her mother is killed. Rima, wounded, is taken to a military hospital before her brother leads her to the besieged area of Ghouta -where, between bombings, she writes her story. In Planet of Clay, Samar Yazbek offers a surreal depiction of the horrors taking place in Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty. 'Brave, rebellious and passionate ... Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident.' - Financial Times 'The Syrian writer Samar Yazbek evokes the horror of civil war with gripping lucidity.' -Le Monde

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