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Planet of clay / Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price.
Van Pelt Library PJ7874.A86 M3713 2021
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Yazbek Planet
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yazbik, Samar, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Mashshāʼah. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Syria.
- Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Fiction.
- Damascus (Syria)--Fiction.
- Damascus (Syria).
- Teenage girls--Syria--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Social isolation--Fiction.
- Social isolation.
- Syria--Damascus.
- Arabic fiction--Translations into English.
- Arabic fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- War fiction.
- Novels.
- novels.
- War fiction
- Novels
- History
- Fiction
- War stories.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : World Editions, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Translated into English from the original Arabic.
- Summary:
- "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
- Notes:
- "First published as Al Machaʼa in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon"--Title page verso.
- Winner, English PEN Award
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.
- ISBN:
- 9781642861013
- 1642861014
- 9781912987238
- 1912987236
- OCLC:
- 1243350225
- Publisher Number:
- 99988467170
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