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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a very accessible if difficult memoir. The most interesting parts were the beginning of the Civil War — the protests against Assad and the emergence of all the different rebel camps arrayed against him and against themselves — and of Hisham's time working at the cybercafe in Raqqa, serving ISIS soldiers. It was written well, in an open-faced, approachable way, drifting between his past life as a child growing up under Assad's regime, to his life as a student in Aleppo, to his friendships with fighters, to his struggles to survive in one of the most chaotic and dangerous milieus in modern times. It felt like a gentle, deeply human introduction to the past decade of turmoil in Syria. The pictures were beautiful and haunting, as well. I wish I could've read this in the flesh! ( ) From the National Book Award longlist for non-fiction comes this illustrated memoir of the Syrian war. The author is a native of Raqqa, the first city in Syria to be overtaken by religious fundamentalists. He was a college student studying English when the war began. He lost friends and his country. This firsthand account is a valuable look at the impact of the war on the average citizen and helped me to understand the complex forces at work there sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century??s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom. In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends??fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq??joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched, poured Coca-Cola into one another??s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas, ran from the security forces, and cursed the country??s president, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed, at last, imminent. Five years later, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary, another dead at the hands of government soldiers, and the last, Marwan, now a journalist in Turkish exile, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. Brothers of the Gun is the story of a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, from its inception to the present. Marwan watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups, for a few dreamy days, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS, the Russians, and the Americans all at once. He watched the country that ran through his veins??the country that held his hopes, dreams, and fears??be destroyed in front of him, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution??and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism, impossible violence and repression, and, even in the midst of war, profound acts of courage, creativity, and hope. ??This powerful memoir... provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict, a struggle for peace, and a human tragedy in desperate need of attention. It is a compelling, sobering, and necessary book.???Bryan Stevenson, No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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