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