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Title: Where the Wind Calls Home
Author: YAZBEK SAMAR
Illustrator: PRICE LERI (TRANSLATOR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2024
Imprint: World Editions (Amsterdam)
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
'The potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol station s 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains.This slim novel packs a punch.'Â Publishers Weekly
In this new novel by Syria s most prominent writer of the National Book Award Finalist Planet of Clay, a wounded nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian Army remembers his life lived in the traditional Alawite way.Â
Ali, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole is this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion, wasn t there… While trying to understand the extent of the damage, Ali works his way closer to the tree. His ultimate desire is to fly up to one of its branches, to safety. Through rich vignettes of Ali s memories, we uncover the hardships of his traditional Syrian Alawite village, but also the richness and beauty of its cultural and religious heritage. Yazbek here explores the secrets of the Alawite faith and its relationship to nature and the elements in a tight poetic novel dense with life and hope and love.
ISBN: 9781642861358
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm
Edition: 01