Planet of clay / Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price.

By:

Yazbik, Samar

Contributor(s):

Price, Leri

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Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781642861013
1642861014
9781912987238
1912987236

Uniform titles:

Mashshāʼah. English

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Summary: "An ode to fantasy and beauty in the midst of war-torn Damascus. Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. She 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 Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty."-- Provided by publisher

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode	Course reserves
Circulating textbook (3-week)	NMC Library	Circulating Textbooks	HUM 116	Available	33039001523330	World Cultures
Circulating textbook (3-week)	NMC Library	Circulating Textbooks	HUM 116	Available	33039001523348	World Cultures
Circulating textbook (3-week)	NMC Library	Circulating Textbooks	HUM 116	Available	33039001523355	World Cultures
Circulating textbook (3-week)	NMC Library	Circulating Textbooks	HUM 116	Available	33039001510527	World Cultures

"First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso