Minoui Delphine
Minoui Delphine - The Book Collectors A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A War - Paperback
Minoui Delphine - The Book Collectors A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A War - Paperback
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Description: A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR" An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." Susan Orlean Award - winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels a besieged Syrian town and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peacefulresistance to the Assad regimes Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years no one entered or left and aid was blocked. Every single day bombs fell on this place a place of homes and families schools and children now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week they had six thousand volumes; in a month fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books from Arabic poetry to American self - help Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war planned how to build a democracy and tended the roots of their community despite shell - shocked soil. In the midst of the siege the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library's founders twenty - three - year - old Ahmad. Over text messages Whats App and Facebook Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library exchanged ideas learned English and imagined how to shape the future even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories Minoui makes a far - off complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as the books they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words.
Title: The Book Collectors A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A War
Author(s): Minoui Delphine
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250800176
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/19/2021
Category: Autobiography: General
Description: A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR" An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." Susan Orlean Award - winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels a besieged Syrian town and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peacefulresistance to the Assad regimes Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years no one entered or left and aid was blocked. Every single day bombs fell on this place a place of homes and families schools and children now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week they had six thousand volumes; in a month fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books from Arabic poetry to American self - help Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war planned how to build a democracy and tended the roots of their community despite shell - shocked soil. In the midst of the siege the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library's founders twenty - three - year - old Ahmad. Over text messages Whats App and Facebook Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library exchanged ideas learned English and imagined how to shape the future even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories Minoui makes a far - off complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as the books they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words.
Title: The Book Collectors A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A War
Author(s): Minoui Delphine
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250800176
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/19/2021
Category: Autobiography: General
