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Minoui, Delphine.
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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-
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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-
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The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war / Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.
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Minoui, Delphine.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Call #:
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-
ISBN:
9780374115166
Uniform title:
Passeurs de livres de Daraya. English
Alternate title:
Band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
197 p., 8 pages of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Maps on end sheets.
"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as 'Les passeurs de livres de Daraya.' "
Summary:
"An extraordinary account of a band of young men in a besieged Damascan suburb who find books in the rubble and create a secret library"--From publisher.
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 . 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 peper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a mervelous range of books -- from Arabic poetry, Shakespearean plays to American self-help, and more. 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, 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. -- adapted from jacket
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