Where the Wind Calls Home (häftad)
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194
Utgivningsdatum
2024-02-06
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World Editions
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Leri Price
ISBN
9781642861402

Where the Wind Calls Home E-bok

av Samar Yazbek
E-bok (LCP),  Engelska, 2024-02-06
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2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTThe potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol stations 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains. This slim novel packs a punch. Publishers WeeklyAli, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a holeis this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion, wasnt there ... While trying to understand the extend of the damage, Ali works his way closer to the tree. His ultimate desire is to fly up to one of its branches, to safety. Through rich vignettes of Alis memories, we uncover the hardships of his traditional Syrian Alawite village, but also the richness and beauty of its cultural and religious heritage. Yazbek here explores the secrets of the Alawite faith and its relationship to nature and the elements in a tight poetic novel dense with life and hope and love.
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