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City of sparrows / Eva Nour ; translated by Agnes Broomé.

Nour, Eva, (author.). Broomé, Agnes, (translator.).

Summary:

"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company-which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve his time and go home, even as he finds himself literally charting the course of the army's response to the growing revolt. The situation hits him full force when he receives a text from his girlfriend: "They're shooting at us." With that, Sami realizes that it is not enough to endure Assad's regime-he has to resist. He has to return home, to the city that will become known as the "capital of the revolution." Based on true events as told to journalist Eva Nour, City of Sparrows is the story of coming of age under siege and the power of hope in the face of unfathomable loss"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781612198521 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in the UK by Penguin Random House UK under the title The Stray Cats of Homs.
Subject: Government, Resistance to > Fiction.
Homecoming > Fiction.
Draftees > Fiction.
Homs (Syria) > Fiction.
Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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