Planet of clay /
Yazbik, Samar,
Planet of clay / Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price. - 314 pages ; 21 cm
"First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso.
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.
1642861014 9781642861013 9781912987238 1912987236
GBC191683 bnb
020219166 Uk
Teenage girls--Syria--Fiction.
Social isolation--Fiction.
Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Fiction.
Damascus (Syria)--Fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.
Planet of clay / Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price. - 314 pages ; 21 cm
"First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso.
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.
1642861014 9781642861013 9781912987238 1912987236
GBC191683 bnb
020219166 Uk
Teenage girls--Syria--Fiction.
Social isolation--Fiction.
Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Fiction.
Damascus (Syria)--Fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.