The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
(2020)
By:
Minoui, Delphine
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/MINOUI,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
197 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374115166, 0374115168
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as 'Les passeurs de livres de Daraya.'."
"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"--