TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yazbik,Samar
AU  - Price,Leri
TI  - Planet of clay
SN  - 9781642861013
AV  - PJ7874.A86 M3713 2021
U1  - 892.7/7 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - World Editions
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Syria
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 2011-
KW  - Damascus (Syria)
KW  - War fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso
N2  - "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."--
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