| Description |
314 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
First published as Al Macha'a in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon. |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Syria -- Fiction.
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Bombs -- Fiction.
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Terrorism -- Syria -- Fiction.
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Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.
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Damascus (Syria) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
War stories.
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| Added Author |
Price, Leri, translator.
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| Added Title |
Macha'a. English.
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| ISBN |
9781642861013 (pbk.) |
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1642861014 (pbk.) |
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