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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

eng

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non fiction

The book collectors

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by Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud

a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war

"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. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity. In the midst of the siege, journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down 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 the books they read."--, Provided by publisher

Band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war