The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria
By (Author) Samar Yazbek
Translated by Nashwa Gowanlock
Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
Ebury Publishing
Rider & Co
27th June 2016
4th February 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Human rights, civil rights
323.095691
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 18mm
197g
Description
Powerful insight into the effects of civil war on the Syrian people and why so many are desperate to flee, by award-winning Syrian journalist. 'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer 'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael Palin FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland. From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.
Reviews
Powerful and movingbears comparison with George Orwells Homage To Catalonia as a work of literature, Yazbek is a superb narratorit may be that [she] has written one of the first political classics of the 21st century * Observer *
Brave, rebellious and passionateYazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident * Financial Times *
An eloquent, gripping and harrowing account of the countrys decline into barbarism by an incredibly brave Syrian * Irish Times *
Gripping... Does the important job of putting faces to the numbing numbers of Syrias crisis... * Economist *
Sheds valuable light on day-to-day life inside Syria, something of which we know littlea sobering glimpse of the wreckage that will be discovered when the war is over * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Born in 1970, Samar Yazbek studied literature before beginning her career as a journalist and a scriptwriter for Syrian television and cinema. Her translated work includes the novel, Cinnamon, and A Woman In The Crossfire, her diaries of the first four months of the Syrian uprising, which has won many prizes. She lives in Paris.
