One day they have a normal teenage existence, the next day they are separated from family and must exist alone, and learn the betrayal of authorities who fake concern and assistance they also learn the goodness of people in times of suffering. Moreover, the protagonists must grow up… fast. The book shows the best and worst of the human being: the best in self-sacrifice as residents time and time again risk lives to save each other and the worst in the soldiers, whose morality and any decency left them long before they arrived in Aleppo. As the battle begins and takes over his city, he is separated from his family, and the young teenager and two friends start a life of survival. This work charts the life of Zaid, a thirteen-year-old boy, whose life is changed completely when his city is invaded by rebels, and the pages produce for us his new life, which is only strife and war and trials, with his friend Salman and his sister Fatima.
This city, this heart of a country, fell to its ruin, in real life, suddenly and catastrophically, after standing proud for over 7,000 years. The Heart of Aleppo is, many would claim, one of the best Syrian Civil War books-a work of fiction that is so lifelike it may as well be called non-fiction.Īleppo, many Syrians would claim, is the heart of Syria, a much-loved and much-respected city renowned for bringing forth centuries of great scholars and teachers. This eight-year ‘fight’, now into its ninth year, has been much documented in many books, in both fiction and non-fiction, some more accurate than others. This fire fired up the entire Middle East region which rose in demonstrations-but sadly neither peace nor democracy manifest in these blighted nations, and instead civil war showed its ugly head and hasn’t disappeared from view ever since.Ī Syrian resistance rose that was thwarted by the regime, and the fight is ongoing today. In protest, at everything to do with his country, he set himself alight. In December 2010, a vendor on the streets of Tunisia had had enough.
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