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The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria

The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria

by SamarYazbek (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

Samar Yazbek was well known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she bravely revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. In The Crossing, she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. From the first innocent demonstrations for democracy, through the beginnings of the Free Syrian Army, to the arrival of ISIS, she offers remarkable snapshots of soldiers, children, ordinary men and women simply trying to stay alive...Some of these stories are of hardship and brutality that is hard to bear, but she also gives testimony to touches of humanity along the way: how people live under the gaze of a sniper...how principled young men try to resist orders from their military superiors...how children cope in the bunkers... Yazbek's portraits of life in Syria are very real, her prose is luminous. The Crossing will undoubtedly become a classic: as both a historical document and a work of literature.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Rider & Co
Published: 02 Jul 2015
ISBN 10: 1846044871
ISBN 13: 9781846044878
Book Overview: Powerful insight into the effects of civil war on the Syrian people, by the award-winning Syrian journalist.

Media Reviews
Powerful and moving...bears comparison with George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia as a work of literature, Yazbek is a superb narrator...it may be that [she] has written one of the first political classics of the 21st century * Observer *
Brave, rebellious and passionate...Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident * Financial Times *
An eloquent, gripping and harrowing account of the country's decline into barbarism by an incredibly brave Syrian * Irish Times *
Gripping... Does the important job of putting faces to the numbing numbers of Syria's crisis... * Economist *
Sheds valuable light on day-to-day life inside Syria, something of which we know little...a sobering glimpse of the wreckage that will be discovered when the war is over * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Born in 1970, Samar Yazbek studied literature before beginning her career as a journalist and a scriptwriter for Syrian television and cinema. Her translated work includes the novel, Cinnamon, and A Woman In The Crossfire, her diaries of the first four months of the Syrian uprising, which has won many prizes. She lives in Paris.