Samar Yazbek, trans. from the Arabic by Emily Danby. Haus/Arabia (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (124p) ISBN 978-1-906697-43-3
There’s a pulsing vitality to the lives of the characters, despite their brutal circumstances, in this compelling novel by PEN Pinter Prize–winning Syrian author Yazbek. Hanan is a wealthy woman living in a beautiful house with her husband, Anwar,...
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Samar Yazbek, trans. from the Arabic by Max Weiss. Haus (Consortium, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (269p) ISBN 978-1-908323-12-5
Amid the horrific news about Syrian dissidents, mass killings, and government claims of terrorists, this unique document, written in the first months of the uprising, is a chronicle both of objective events and the visceral and psychic responses of...
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Samar Yazbek, trans. from the Arabic by Leri Price. World Editions, $16.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-64286-101-3
A girl from Damascus finds refuge in literature during the Syrian Civil War in this chilling work from Syrian writer Yazbek (The Crossing). At three, Rima decides to stop speaking. To keep her safe during the fighting, her mother takes extreme...
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Samar Yazbek, trans. from the Arabic by Leri Price. World Editions, $18.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-64286-135-8
The potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol station’s 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains. Covered in debris, Ali struggles to regain his...
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