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 a matter of days, an intense rebel offensive brought down one of the worlds most entrenched regimes, ending the sixty-year Baathist dictatorship and the Assad familys grip on Syria. The speed of the collapse stunned observers. Yet this was no sudden fall. It was the culmination of a revolution forged through years of protest, repression and resistance.The fall triggered celebrations and freedoms Syrians had not experienced in decades. But the cost has been immense, and the wounds of violence are unresolved. As the country enters a precarious new phase, urgent questions remain: can justice be delivered and a fractured society rebuilt? Or will competing powers and unaddressed grievances pull Syria back into conflict?Drawing on first-hand reporting and interviews across Syria, Robin Yassin-Kassab traces this pivotal moment through the lives of those who lived it. The Blood Between Us is a portrait of a country suspended between collapse and possibility and a clear-eyed account of who will shape what comes next.

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.