The stray cats of homs /
Nour, eva
The stray cats of homs / Eva Nour - United Kingdom Doubleday Publishers 2020 - 367 p.
The story of a young man who will do anything to keep the dream of home alive, even in the face of unimaginable devastation.
'A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English, cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise, I don't know how you've made it this far.'
Sami's childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof).
But growing up in one of the largest cities in Syria, with his country at war with itself, means that nothing is really normal. And Sami's hopes for a better future are ripped away when he is conscripted into the military and forced to train as a mapmaker.
Sami may be shielded from the worst horrors of the war, but it will still be impossible to avoid his own nightmare...
9780857526755
Syria
Young men
Families
Brothers
Cartography
Political refugees
Fiction NOU-E
The stray cats of homs / Eva Nour - United Kingdom Doubleday Publishers 2020 - 367 p.
The story of a young man who will do anything to keep the dream of home alive, even in the face of unimaginable devastation.
'A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English, cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise, I don't know how you've made it this far.'
Sami's childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof).
But growing up in one of the largest cities in Syria, with his country at war with itself, means that nothing is really normal. And Sami's hopes for a better future are ripped away when he is conscripted into the military and forced to train as a mapmaker.
Sami may be shielded from the worst horrors of the war, but it will still be impossible to avoid his own nightmare...
9780857526755
Syria
Young men
Families
Brothers
Cartography
Political refugees
Fiction NOU-E