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Title: Planet of Clay
Author: YAZBEK SAMAR
Illustrator: PRICE LERI (TRANSLATOR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/01/2022
Imprint: World Editions (Amsterdam)
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of the Qur an like a mantra as everything and everyone around her is blown to bits.
Since Rima hardly ever speaks, people think she s crazy, but she is no fool the madness is in the battered city around her. One day while taking a bus through Damascus, a soldier opens fire and her mother is killed. Rima, wounded, is taken to a military hospital before her brother leads her to the besieged area of Ghouta where, between bombings, she writes her story.
In Planet of Clay, Samar Yazbek offers a surreal depiction of the horrors taking place in Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty.
'Brave, rebellious and passionate Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident.' Financial Times
'The Syrian writer Samar Yazbek evokes the horror of civil war with gripping lucidity.' Le Monde
ISBN: 9781642861013
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm