The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Minoui, Delphine;Vergnaud, Lara
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 929 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Dārayyā (Syria), Syria,Syria., Syria--Dārayyā
- ISBN
- 0374720290
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✦ Synopsis
Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels in a besieged Syrian town, who find hope and connection making an underground library from the rubble of war
Day in, day out, bombs fall on Daraya, a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. In the midst of chaos and bloodshed, a group searching for survivors stumbles on a cache of books. They collect the books, then look for more. In a week they have six thousand volumes. In a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary is born: a library where the people of Daraya can explore beyond the blockade.
Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya was under siege for four years. No one entered or left, and international aid was blocked.
In 2015, French-Iranian journalist Delphine Minoui saw a post on Facebook about this secret library and tracked down one of its founders, twenty-three-year-old Ahmad, an aspiring...
✦ Subjects
Syria -- Dārayyā