Title The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war / Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

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Edition	First American edition.
Description	197 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note	"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as 'Les passeurs de livres de Daraya.' "
Summary	"An extraordinary account of a band of young men in a besieged Damascan suburb who find books in the rubble and create a secret library"-- Provided by publisher.
	Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Bombs fell on this place of homes and families. A group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books; in a week they had six thousand volumes; in a month fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library to escape the blockade, offering Arabic poetry, American self-help, Shakespearean plays and more. Over text messages, Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library, exchanged ideas, learned English, and imagined how to shape the future, even as bombs kept falling from above. -- adapted from jacket
Subject	Dārayyā (Syria) -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
	Dārayyā (Syria) -- Social life and customs.
	Books and reading -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
	Libraries and society -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
	Libraries -- Social aspects -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
	Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
	Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Libraries and society. (OCoLC)fst00997566
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
	Syria. (OCoLC)fst01208757
	Syria -- Dārayyā (OCoLC)fst01320208
	Syrian Civil War (Syria : 2011- ) (OCoLC)fst01907471
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
Added Author	Vergnaud, Lara, translator.
Added Title	Passeurs de livres de Daraya. English
	Band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
Translation Of:	Translation of: Minoui, Delphine. Passeurs de livres de Daraya 9782021363029 (DLC) 2017488325
ISBN	9780374115166 (hardcover)
	0374115168 (hardcover)

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