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Title: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from SyriaAuthor: Wendy Pearlman
Published: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 290
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians, this book is filled with testimonials, all together showing us the story of the Syrian war and the way it affected the people living through it.
Review:
I got this book because I wanted to learn and better understand the conflict in Syria and this book provided all of that and more.
There introduction of this book concisely explains the conflict in Syria and the way it progressed and I found that very helpful. After that, we move on to all these testimonials from all these different people and when I first started reading, I felt like those vignettes were a little to short and I wished I had gotten to know all the people better, but the further into the book I got, the more I saw what the book was doing; all these voices are a puzzle piece and in the end, they show you a picture of what it was really like for these people. I feel like that worked really well; we get an overview as well as a human view of what was going on,
I feel like I got a much better grasp of the politics and history of this conflict than I had before. There are a lot of parts that are difficult to read but I like that the book doesn't shy away from it because although it's horrifying, it's the truth. It shows us the human perspective of this conflict and the war and everything going on in it.
Definitely one of the better books I've read this year.
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