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Author Minoui, Delphine, author.

Title The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war / Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.

Edition First American edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2032914~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  956.9104231 MIN    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  956.9104231 MIN    AVAILABLE
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Description 197 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note "Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as 'Les passeurs de livres de Daraya.' "
Summary "An extraordinary account of a band of young men in a besieged Damascan suburb who find books in the rubble and create a secret library"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Dārayyā (Syria) -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Dārayyā (Syria) -- Social life and customs.
Libraries -- Social aspects -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
Books and reading -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
Libraries and society -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
Added Author Vergnaud, Lara, translator.
Added Title Passeurs de livres de Daraya. English.
Band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
Translation Of: Translation of: Minoui, Delphine. Passeurs de livres de Daraya 9782021363029 (DLC) 2017488325.
ISBN 9780374115166 (hardcover)
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