City of Jasmine

✍ Scribed by Grjasnowa, Olga;Derbyshire, Katy

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Germany., Syria,Syria.
• ISBN: 1786074885

✦ Synopsis

When Hammoudi, a young surgeon based in Paris, returns to Syria to renew his passport, he only expects to stay there a few days. But the authorities refuse to let him leave and Hammoudi finds himself caught up in the fight against the regime. Meanwhile, budding actress Amal has also joined the protests against the government and her own father, by whom she feels betrayed. Realising that they will never again be safe in their homeland, Amal and her boyfriend Youssef decide to flee to Europe in a desperate bid to survive.

But the path to safety brings its own risks, and Amal and Youssef once again narrowly escape death when their overcrowded ship sinks. Eventually they reach Germany, but soon discover that in this new life – where they are perceived as nothing but refugees – their struggle is far from over.

City of Jasmine is an intimate and striking novel that offers real insight into the horrors and inhumanity of war, whilst also focusing on the humanity of the protagonists, marking Olga Grjasnowa as one of the most talented and admired young authors working in Germany today.

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Review

PRAISE FOR ALL RUSSIANS LOVE BIRCH TREES (Other Press, 2014): **
"A thoughtful, melancholy study of loss."--Kirkus**
"[A] provocative first novel." --O Magazine
"[Grjasnowa] reveals herself to be an expert chronicler of modern displacement and of the scars left by the wars that followed the Soviet Union's breakup." --Publishers Weekly
"A touching and thought-provoking debut novel."--Library Journal
"Part of a new global literature that sees foreignness as a condition of familiarity, that understands alienation as a way of life." --Shelf Awareness
"[All Russians Love Birch Trees] is an insightful look at three countries, at the experience of being an immigrant, and at the pain of loss. It's a quiet yet rich novel that speaks to experiences often not represented in literature and also to the universal feelings of grief and isolation." --Bustle

Review

PRAISE FOR ALL RUSSIANS LOVE BIRCH TREES (Other Press, 2014):
"A thoughtful, melancholy study of loss."―Kirkus
"[A] provocative first novel." ―O Magazine
“[Grjasnowa] reveals herself to be an expert chronicler of modern displacement and of the scars left by the wars that followed the Soviet Union’s breakup.” ―Publishers Weekly
“A touching and thought-provoking debut novel.”―Library Journal
"Part of a new global literature that sees foreignness as a condition of familiarity, that understands alienation as a way of life." ―Shelf Awareness
“[All Russians Love Birch Trees] is an insightful look at three countries, at the experience of being an immigrant, and at the pain of loss. It’s a quiet yet rich novel that speaks to experiences often not represented in literature and also to the universal feelings of grief and isolation.” ―Bustle

✦ Subjects

Syria