Planet of Clay
$40.98 AUD
Approx $28.64 USD
Approx $28.64 USD
Description:
Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured 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 in Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty.
'Brave, rebellious and passionate … Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident.' — Financial Times
'The Syrian writer Samar Yazbek evokes the horror of civil war with gripping lucidity.' —Le Monde
Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured 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 in Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty.
'Brave, rebellious and passionate … Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident.' — Financial Times
'The Syrian writer Samar Yazbek evokes the horror of civil war with gripping lucidity.' —Le Monde
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