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The Book Collectors of Daraya - A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War (Paperback)
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The Book Collectors of Daraya - A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War (Paperback)
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List price R285
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Discovery Miles 2 580
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'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and
therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously
optimistic' Financial Times '[An] incredible chronicle . . . The
book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath images
of violence' LitHub In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus
was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of
suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical
gas attacks. People's homes were destroyed and their food supplies
cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, forty young
Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project,
rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of
their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a
safe place, deep underground. It became their school, their
university, their refuge. It was a place to learn, to exchange
ideas, to dream and to hope. Based on lengthy interviews with these
young men, conducted over Skype by the award-winning French
journalist Delphine Minoui, The Book Collectors of Daraya is a
powerful testament to freedom, tolerance and the power of
literature. Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.
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