01662nam a22002537a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040001600080041001200096082003500108100002000143245013600163246003800299250003800337260003800375300003600413500007900449520069900528700003201227942002101259999001501280952011301295OSt20251203041534.0251203b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781529012330  cGZK Library  aEnglish  2Paperback edition aABM2022/01  aMinoui, Delphin  aThe Book Collectors of Daraya : A band of Syrian rebels, their underground library, and the stories that carried them through a war  aLes Passeurs  de livres de Daraya  aEnglish, 20222 paperback edition   aUnited Kingdom :bPicador, c2022  a197p., illustrated, c13cmx20cm  aOriginally published in French in 2018 as Les passeurs de livres de Daraya  aIn 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.   aVergnaud, Lara [Translator]  2Customc  ABMn0  c1250d1250  00102Custom4070aGZKLbGZKLd2025-12-03l0oABM2022/01p2025-1384r2025-12-03 04:15:26w2025-12-03y  ABM