The Crossing

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Powerful and moving...bears comparison with George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia as a work of literature, Yazbek is a superb narrator...it may be that [she] has written one of the first political classics of the 21st century * Observer * Brave, rebellious and passionate...Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident * Financial Times * An eloquent, gripping and harrowing account of the country's decline into barbarism by an incredibly brave Syrian * Irish Times * Gripping... Does the important job of putting faces to the numbing numbers of Syria's crisis... * Economist * Sheds valuable light on day-to-day life inside Syria, something of which we know little...a sobering glimpse of the wreckage that will be discovered when the war is over * Sunday Times * Harrowing...a chilling account of the brutality faced by people living in Syria... * Daily Mail (Online) * It bears comparison with George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia as a work of literature. Yazbek is a superb narrator who knows how to pace her text, craft dialogue and convey a universal sense of grief; this is how she crosses the line from journalism to high literary art * Guardian * Perhaps the finest single account of Syria's revolution * New Internationalist * I much admire Samar for her literary skill, and her bravery -- Carol Ann Duffy