The Book Collectors of Daraya : A band of Syrian rebels, their underground library, and the stories that carried them through a war

By:

Minoui, Delphin

Contributor(s):

Vergnaud, Lara [Translator]

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Publication details: United Kingdom : Picador, 2022Edition: English, 20222 paperback editionDescription: 197p., illustrated, 13cmx20cmISBN:

9781529012330

Other title:

Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya

DDC classification:

Paperback edition ABM2022/01

Summary: 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.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Autobiographies/Biographies (ABM)	Goethe Zentrum - Kampala Library				ABM2022/01 (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			2025-1384

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.

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