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Planet of clay / Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: New York : World Editions, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 314 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781642861013
  • 1642861014
  • 9781912987238
  • 1912987236
Uniform titles:
  • Mashshāʼah. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 892.7/7 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ7874.A86 M3713 2021
Summary: "An ode to fantasy and beauty in the midst of war-torn Damascus. 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. In Planet of Clay, Samar Yazbek offers a surreal depiction of the horrors taking place Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty."-- Provided by publisher
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Circulating textbook (3-week) Circulating textbook (3-week) NMC Library Circulating Textbooks HUM 116 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33039001523355

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Circulating textbook (3-week) Circulating textbook (3-week) NMC Library Circulating Textbooks HUM 116 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33039001510527

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"First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso

"An ode to fantasy and beauty in the midst of war-torn Damascus. 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. In Planet of Clay, Samar Yazbek offers a surreal depiction of the horrors taking place Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty."-- Provided by publisher

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