Planet of Clay
ISBN-13: 9781912987238
Contributor(s): Samar Yazbek
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: World Editions
Publication Date: 26-08-2021
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£12.99
About the book
Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of the Qur'an like a mantra as everything and everyone around her is blown to bits. In Planet of Clay, Samar Yazbek offers a surreal depiction of the horrors taking place in Syria, in vivid and poetic language and with a sharp eye for detail and beauty.