Planet of Clay
- Schrijfster: Samar Yazbek (Syrië)
- Soort boek: Syrische roman
- Engelse vertaling: Leri Price
- Uitgever: World Editions
- Verschijnt: 5 oktober 2021
- Omvang: 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
Recensie en waardering van de roman
- “Brave, rebellious and passionate…Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident.” (Financial Times)
- “The Syrian writer Samar Yazbek evokes the horror of civil war with gripping lucidity.” (Le Monde)
Flaptekst van de roman van Samar YazbekWorld Edi
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 colored 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. Since Rima hardly ever speaks, people think she’s crazy, but she is no fool-the madness is in the battered city around her. One day while taking a bus through Damascus, a soldier opens fire and her mother is killed. 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. 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.