Leseprobe
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Planet of Clay
Samar Yazbek
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
The new novel Planet Of Clay gives a haunting and unflinching look at the horrors of war - the bombing, the starvation, the fear - all seen through the eyes of Rima, a young girl with a vibrant imagination."—NPR
“Planet of Clay is a devastating novel about human resilience and fragility in a time of war.”—Foreword Reviews, starred review
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 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 in Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty.
Kundenbewertungen
2021 National Book Award, Bo-Young Kim, Megha Majumdar, yu miri, Graywolf Press, Kaya Press, World Editions, The Twilight Zone, Syria, the beekeeper of aleppo, Saadallah Wannous, New Directions, Hanna Mina, Jackie Smith, Nizar Qabbani, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, Literary Prize, Peach Blossom Paradise, Maria Stepanova, Richard Philcox, Sora Kim-Russell, the shadow king, An Inventory of Losses, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Waiting for the Waters to Rise, Rabbit Island, Joungmin Lee Comfort, best novels about syria, Christy Lefteri, best books about syria,best books about syrian war, Aneesa Abbas Higgins, New York Review Books, Canaan Morse, Syrian Writers, Natasha Wimmer, lisa dillman, Maryana Marrash, khaled hosseini, Literary Award, Salim Barakat, 2021 National Book Awards Longlist, the bitch, In Memory of Memory, National Book Award, civil war syria, minor detail, tokyo ueno station, Christina MacSweeney, National Book Award Translated Literature, Nona Fernández, the kiterunner, Adania Shibli, the beekeeper, Syrian authors, Winter in Sokcho, The Crossing, When We Cease to Understand the World, Adrian Nathan West, isis, My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria, On the Origin of Species and Other Stories, Open Letter, Ulfat Idilbi, Elvira Navarro, Ottilie Mulzet, pilar quintana, Ali Ahmad Said Esber, Samar Yazbek, Khaled Khalifa, Two Lines Press, Judith Schalansky, Books about Syria, a thousand splendid suns, National Book Award Translated Literature Longlist, Maaza Mengiste, Colette Khoury, Ge Fei, a burning, Sasha Dugdale, Maryse Condé, Benjamín Labatut