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Author Minoui, Delphine, author.

Title The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war / Delphine Minoui ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.

Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

ISBN 9780374115166 (hardcover)
0374115168 (hardcover)



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Edition First edition.
Description 197 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note(S) "Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as 'Les passeurs de livres de Daraya.' "
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "An extraordinary account of a band of young men in a besieged Damascan suburb who find books in the rubble and create a secret library"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Translated from the French.
Subject(S) Books and reading -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
Libraries and society -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
Libraries -- Social aspects -- Syria -- Dārayyā.
Dārayyā (Syria) -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Dārayyā (Syria) -- Social life and customs.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
Biographies.
Added Name(S) Vergnaud, Lara, translator.
Added Title Band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
Passeurs de livres de Daraya. English.
ISBN 9780374115166 (hardcover)
0374115168 (hardcover)