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(0)Lara Vergnaud
Author
Physical Desc
197 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
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. Bombs fell on this place of homes and families. A group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books; in a week they had six thousand volumes; in a month...