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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
by Alia Malek
rating: 4.8 (25 reviews)
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds-who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family's home as the country comes apart, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria's future.
The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history, society, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
Details:Amazon rank: #38,707Price: $16.75Publisher: Nation Books; 1 edition (February 28, 2017)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1568585322ISBN-13: 978-1568585321Weight: 15.2 ounces
Malek's book ends in 2013, well before things got really terribleShe takes us on the journey of her grandmother and her mother - she focuses on an apartment that her grandparents owned and intertwines that with http://irconbu.bloog.pl/id,361738222,title,Happy-Birthday-Guest-Book-Birthday-Guest-Books-For-Parties-Blank-Lined-Guest-Book-For-Any-Aged-Birthday-825-X-6-Paperback,index.html and societyAlthough I began reading this book for educational purposes, Maleks writing is so emotionally evocative that it transcends that fine line between memoir and non-fiction: She manages to inform her audience while also immersing them in her own personal journey BookForum "Moving and insightful, Malek's memoir combines sharp-eyed observations of Syrian politicsCommenting on current political strifeHer own experiences http://drugdirojecka.wap-ka.com/forum2_theme_112968340.xhtml?tema=145 the Syrian diaspora allow her to swivel between offering readers an inside look at her familys country and recognizing her feeling as an outsider looking in on her cultural heritageA beautiful, nuanced and human memoir that weaves the tale of Syria's history through Malek's own family and leaves the reader with the vivid sense of loss, alienation and fear likely common to all Syrians trapped in this conflict."Leila Fadel, Middle East Correspondent, NPR"Moving and insightful, Malek's memoir combines sharp-eyed observations of Syrian politics, only occasionally overdone, with elegiac commentary on home, exile, and a bygone eraMar 21, 2017 Karyl rated it it was amazing Shelves: library-reads, 2012, non-fiction, memoirs, biography, recent-releases, war, travel, npr, 2017-reading-challenge, in-a-foreign-land I heard about this book on NPR and knew immediately that I had to read it122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011The tragedy of Syria seems to be not just one of lives disrupted, shattered, and destroyed by brutality, war, and geopolitics but of a people and a history now scattered to an uncertain futureAlthough the calculated embrace of a private sector was supposed http://hd-team.xooit.fr/viewtopic.php?p=245 stimulate trickle-down benefits, it was so handicapped that it was bound to only make the gap between http://www.scoop.it/t/perclithucafon/p/4081107331/2017/07/03/pingouin-livre-de-coloriage-french-edition few rich and everyone else much starker." 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The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history, society, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
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