The Crossing

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland. From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Samar Yazbek, Yazbek Samar
• Assisted by: Nashwa Gowanlock (Translation), Gowanlock Nashwa (Translation), Ruth A. Kemp (Translation), Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translation), Kemp Ruth Ahmedzai (Translation)
• Publisher: Rider
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781846044885
• ISBN: 978-1-84604-488-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Syria, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Human rights, civil rights, classic; the girl who smiled beads; journalist