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Planet Of Clay
World Editions
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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 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 colored 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.
- | Author: Samar Yazbek
- | Publisher: World Editions
- | Publication Date: October 05, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1642861014
- | ISBN-13: 9781642861013
- Author:
- Samar Yazbek
- Publisher:
- World Editions
- Publication Date:
- October 05, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 336 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1642861014
- ISBN-13:
- 9781642861013