The Book Collectors Of Daraya: A Band Syrian Rebels Their Underground Library And Stories That Carried Them Through War Delphine Minoui Picador

\ The Book Collectors Of Daraya Celebrates Political And Therapeutic Power Written Word Defiant Cautiously Optimistic\ Financial Times\ [An] Incredible Chronicle Tells Kind Story That Often Gets Buried Beneath Images Violence\ Lithub In 2012 Rebel Suburb Damascus Was Brutally Besieged By Syrian Government Forces Four Years Suffering Ensued Punctuated Shelling Barrel Bombs Chemical Gas Attacks People’s Homes Were Destroyed Their Food Supplies Cut Off Disease Rife Yet This Man-Made Hell Forty Young Revolutionaries Embarked On An Extraordinary Project Rescuing All Books They Could Find Bombed-Out Ruins Home Town Used Them To Create A Secret Library Safe Place Deep Underground It Became School University Refuge Learn Exchange Ideas Dream Hope Based Lengthy Interviews With These Men Conducted Over Skype Award-Winning French Journalist Delphine Minoui Is Powerful Testament Freedom Tolerance Literature Translated From Lara Vergnaud Σελίδες: 208 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0726 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm