Yazbik, Samar, <br/><br/>
Planet of clay / 
Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price 
 - 314 pages ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> "First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso 
<br/><br/> "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."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781642861013 1642861014 9781912987238 1912987236 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC191683  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teenage girls--Syria--Fiction<br/>Social isolation--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Fiction<br/>Damascus (Syria)--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>War fiction.<br/>Novels.<br/>History.<br/>Fiction.<br/>War fiction.<br/>Novels.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ7874.A86  / M3713 2021 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>892.7/7