Syria

The Book Collectors of Daraya
by Delphine Minoui

This book describes a resistence group’s attempts to rescue books from a bombed-out town in order to create a secret library and refuge in the 1990s. Assembled from transcripts of skype exchanges between journalist Delphine Minoui and the rebels, who favoured dialogue and tolerance, it is a story of human endurance, suffering and bravery.

Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Picador, 2021
First published in 2018
ISBN 9781529012316