These eloquent, nuanced, and heartbreaking books - filled with life in the face of death - deserve to be read with all the compassion and courage it must have taken to write them. Abu Bakr al Rabeeahīoth Homes and The Boy on the Beach humanize a conflict that has too often been condensed to numbers, statistics, and nameless victims. As told to her by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, writer Winnie Yeung has crafted a heartbreaking, hopeful, and urgently necessary book that provides a window into understanding Syria. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy ? soccer, cousins, video games, friends. They moved to Homs, in Syria ? just before the Syrian civil war broke out.Ību Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Politcal Writing.
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