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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Minoui, Delphine.     Subjects     Libraries -- Syria.     Books and reading -- Syria -- Dārayyā.     Libraries and society -- Syria -- Dārayyā.     Libraries -- Social aspects -- Syria -- Dārayyā.     Dārayyā (Syria) -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.     Dārayyā (Syria) -- Social life and customs.     Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Minoui, Delphine.       by title:      The book collectors ...      Passeurs de livres d...       by call number:      LP 956.9104231 M666b     Search the Web     Minoui, Delphine.     Libraries -- Syria.     Books and reading -- Syria -- Dārayyā.     Libraries and society -- Syria -- Dārayyā.     Libraries -- Social aspects -- Syria -- Dārayyā.     Dārayyā (Syria) -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.     Dārayyā (Syria) -- Social life and customs.     Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-       MARC Display

The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war / by Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. by Minoui, Delphine. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. Call #: LP 956.9104231 M666b Subjects Libraries -- Syria.   Books and reading -- Syria -- Dārayyā.   Libraries and society -- Syria -- Dārayyā.   Libraries -- Social aspects -- Syria -- Dārayyā.   Dārayyā (Syria) -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.   Dārayyā (Syria) -- Social life and customs.   Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- Series Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs. ISBN:  9781432887742 (large print hc) Uniform title:  Passeurs de livres de Daraya. English Alternate title:  Band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  229 p. (large print), 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., portraits ; 23 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in French in 2017 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Les passeurs de livres de Daraya." In English, translated from the French. Summary:  "Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place -- a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books -- from Arabic poetry to American self-help, Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war, planned how to build a democracy, and tended the roots of their community despite shell-shocked soil. In the midst of the siege, the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library's founders, twenty-three-year-old Ahmad. Over text messages, WhatsApp, and Facebook, Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library, exchanged ideas, learned English, and imagined how to shape the future, even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories, Minoui makes a far-off, complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as thebooks they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 956.9104231 M666b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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