EAN: 9781642861013

PLANET OF CLAY - SAMAR YAZBEK KARTONIERT (TB)

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE Samar Yazbek's work has
previously been published in the US. She is mainly known for her non-fiction work. Her
non-fiction title A Woman In the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution is a rare early
chronicle of the Syrian revolution from inside  and sold around 1 500 copies through BookScan.
Her work has been reviewed in the NYT  the Guardian  and the Washington Post  among others.
Yazbek is one of Syria's most prominent journalists and writers. She has previously been
profiled in the NYT https:  www.nytimes.com 2012 11 24 world middleeast
samar-yazbek-branded-betrayer-for-embracing-syria-rebels.html for her anti-government activism.
Breaking taboos in her work  much of her writing is banned in her home country. Her life
threatened  she fled Syria to Paris in 2011. In 2012 Yazbek was given the PEN Pinter
International Writer of Courage award. Planet of Clay is the story of Rima  a girl from
Damascus born with a strange mania: she cannot stop walking  and therefore grows up tied to her
mother's wrist  or a piece of furniture  by a thick rope. Rima is mostly silent  the sound of
her voice is only heard on very specific occasions: when she chants the Koran  reads aloud The
Little Prince  or when she screams or moans because she is hurt or afraid. Rima's restricted
speech and movement mirror the oppression of Syrian women. When her mother is killed in front
of her by a soldier  Rima  wounded  is taken to a military hospital before her brother leads
her to the besieged area of Ghouta-where  between bombings  she writes her story. Trapped in
Rima's head  the reader gets a first-hand sensory and emotional take on the Syrian war. Yet the
horrors of war don't alter the lightness and freshness of this woman-child who  like the Little
Prince  collects refuge-planets: books  writing and drawing.

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