Planet of Clay
New York : World Editions, 2021, ©2021..
Format: Book
Description: 314 pages ; 21 cm
"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
Subjects:
Teenage girls -- Syria -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.
Damascus (Syria) -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Syria -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.
Damascus (Syria) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781642861013
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Yazbik | St. Andrews Indoors | Fiction | In |
"First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso.
Winner, English PEN Award
Winner, English PEN Award