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  title info:
    title: Syria's secret library
    sub title: reading and redemption in a town under siege
  name:
    name part: Thomson, Mike
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First US edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years, it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall, bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries. They were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above.
  note: Mike Thomson.
  note: "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, Ltd."--Colophon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-303).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    topic: Libraries
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Syria
    geographic: Dārayyā (Damascus)
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 2011-
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Dārayyā (Damascus, Syria)
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: DS99.D332 T46 2019
  classification: 956.9104/23
  identifier: 9781541767621
  identifier: 1541767624
  identifier: 2019938981
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180910
    record change date: 20200117102135.0
    record identifier: in00004133252