Book
No turning back : life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria
Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
ISBN 9780393609493
Bib Id 945852
Copyright 2018
Edition First edition
Description xxi, 378 pages : map ; 25 cm
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cam a22 Ii 4500
LCCN
2017-052698
ISBN
9780393609493 (hardcover) $26.95
0393609499
Call #
956.9104 A
Author
Title
No turning back : life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria
Edition
First edition
Publication Information
2018 by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY :
Copyright Date
©2018
Description
xxi, 378 pages : map ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index.
Summary
This astonishing book by the prize-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid tells the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos of the protests online, full of hope for justice and democracy. A father of two named Mohammad, secretly radicalized and newly released from prison, saw a darker opportunity in the unrest. When violence broke out in Homs, a poet named Abu Azzam became an unlikely commander in a Free Syrian Army militia. The regime's brutal response disrupted a family in Idlib province, where a nine-year-old girl opened the door to a military raid that caused her father to flee. As the bombings increased and roads grew more dangerous, these people's lives intertwined in unexpected ways. Rania Abouzeid brings readers deep inside Assad's prisons, to covert meetings where foreign states and organizations manipulated the rebels, and to the highest levels of Islamic militancy and the formation of ISIS. Based on more than five years of clandestine reporting on the front lines, No Turning Back is an utterly engrossing human drama full of vivid, indelible characters that shows how hope can flourish even amid one of the twenty-first century's greatest humanitarian disasters.
Genre/Form
Personal narratives
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