The young, mute narrator of this compassionate novel by the author of The Crossing becomes a poignant emblem of the Syrian women confined by war
is narrated by Rima, a mute girl from Damascus who, afflicted by the desire to walk wherever her feet take her, is tied to her mother’s wrist. She loses herself in books, drawing and the secret planets in her head.
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