Robin Yassin-Kassab

It is summer 2001 and Sami Traifi has escaped his fraying marriage and minimal job prospects to visit Damascus. In search of his roots and himself, he instead finds a forgotten uncle in a gloomy back room, and an ugly secret about his beloved father...Returning to London, Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab. Sami embarks on a wilfully ragged journey in the opposite direction, away from religion _ but towards what? Novela literaria con gran potencial.

En 2011, muchos sirios tomaron las calles de Damasco para exigir el derrocamiento del gobierno de Bashar al Asad. Hoy, gran parte de Siria se ha convertido en una zona de guerra y el país está al borde del colapso. Este libro explora la compleja realidad de la vida en la actual Siria con unos detalles y una sofisticación sin precedentes, aprovechando nuevos testimonios de primera mano de combatientes de la oposición, exiliados perdidos en un archipiélago de campamentos de refugiados y valientes defensores de los derechos humanos.

In just eleven blistering days, a rebel offensive shattered one of the worlds most entrenched regimes, ending six decades of Baathist rule and the Assad familys grip on Syria. The speed of the collapse stunned observers yet it was no sudden fall, but the climax of a revolution years in the making, born of repression and resistance.The liberation brought celebrations and freedoms unseen for generations. But the cost was staggering, the wounds still raw. As Syrians face an uncertain future, urgent questions remain: Will justice and reconciliation prevail, or will division, grievance and foreign interventions reignite the cycle of violence?Blending analysis, reportage and personal testimony, The Blood Between Us captures a pivotal turning point in Syrias history. Robin Yassin-Kassab offers a textured portrait of a nation on the cusp, facing both immense risk and revolutionary promise.

It is summer 2001 and Sami Traifi has escaped his fraying marriage and minimal job prospects to visit Damascus. In search of his roots and himself, he instead finds a forgotten uncle in a gloomy back room, and an ugly secret about his beloved father... Returning to London, Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab. Sami embarks on a wilfully ragged journey in the opposite direction, away from religion but towards what? As Sami struggles to understand Muntahas newly-deepened faith, her brother Ammars hip hop Islamism and his father-in-laws need to see grandchildren, so his emotional and spiritual unraveling begins to accelerate. And the more he rebels, the closer he comes to betraying those he loves, edging ever-nearer to the brink of losing everything Set against a powerfully-evoked backdrop of multi-ethnic, multi-faith London, The Road from Damascus explores themes as big as love, faith and hope, and as fundamental as our need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, whatever that might be.