City of sparrows a novel
"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly...
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[2020]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Nour, Eva, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a City of sparrows : |b a novel / |c Eva Nour ; translated by Agnes Broomé. |
| 246 | 1 | 3 | |i Previously published as: |a Stray cats of Homs |
| 264 | 1 | |a Brooklyn : |b Melville House, |c [2020] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2020 | |
| 300 | |a [294 pages ; |c 24 cm] | ||
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| 500 | |a [Subtitle from cover.] | ||
| 546 | |a In English, translated from the Swedish. | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in the UK by Penguin Random House UK under the title The Stray Cats of Homs" --title page verso. | ||
| 520 | |a "Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simpl0y serve his time and go home, even as he finds himself literally charting the course of the army's response to the growing revolt. The situation that hits him full-force when he receives a text from his girlfriend: "They're shooting at us." With that, Sami realizes that it is not enough to endure Assad's regime -- he has to resist. He has to return home, to the city that will become known as the capital of the revolution. | ||
| 546 | |a English translation from the Swedish. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Businessmen |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Government, Resistance to |z Syria |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Homecoming |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Draftees |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Homs (Syria) |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Syria |x History |y Civil War, 2011- |v Fiction. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Coming-of-age fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Library of Congress surplus books program tribute. | |
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