Planet of Clay
Author(s): Samar Yazbek ; Leri Price (Translator)
Novel | Syria | Translated fiction
"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.
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- : 01 September 2021
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- : Samar Yazbek ; Leri Price (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : 2201
- : English
- : 892.737
- : 336
- : Leri Price