In this book, Yazbek lends her voice to those who are not heard, the ordinary people, families, shop-keepers, soldiers, farmers, rebels.
Observer: ‘Powerful and moving…bears comparison with George Orwell’s Homage To Catalonia as a work of literature, Yazbek is a superb narrator…it may be that [she] has written one of the first political classics of the 21st century’
Sunday Times ‘Sheds valuable light on day-to-day life inside Syria, something of which we know little…a sobering glimpse of the wreckage that will be discovered when the war is over’