01539nam a22002417a 4500 OSt 20251203041534.0 251203b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781529012330 GZK Library English Paperback edition ABM2022/01 Minoui, Delphin The Book Collectors of Daraya : A band of Syrian rebels, their underground library, and the stories that carried them through a war Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya English, 20222 paperback edition United Kingdom : Picador, 2022 197p., illustrated, 13cmx20cm Originally published in French in 2018 as Les passeurs de livres de Daraya In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People’s homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, forty young Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project, rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a safe place, deep underground. It became their school, their university, their refuge. It was a place to learn, to exchange ideas, to dream and to hope. by the Syrian government forces. Vergnaud, Lara [Translator] Custom ABM 0 1250 1250 0 0 Custom 0 0 GZKL GZKL 2025-12-03 0 ABM2022/01 2025-1384 2025-12-03 04:15:26 2025-12-03 ABM