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<p><b>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR</b><br><br><b>"An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." —Susan Orlean</b><br><br><b>Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war</b><br><br><i>Reading is an act of resistance.</i><br><br>Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful<br>resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place—a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits.<br><br>And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity.<br><br>The library offered a marvelous range of books—from Arabic poetry to American self-help, Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors share

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Author

Delphine Minoui, Lara Vergnaud

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374720292

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (142 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14