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Homes : a refugee story
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- ISBN: 9781988298306
- ISBN: 198829830X
- ISBN: 9781988298290
- ISBN: 1988298296
- ISBN: 9781988298283
- ISBN: 1988298288
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1 online resource (190 pages) - Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Intro; Abu Bakr al Rabeeah's family and friends; Where Did the Sun Go?; The Sweet Life; A New Life; Wait, Wait, Little One; Strange Lullaby; My First Massacre; And Then a Second One; Damascus; Oh, Father; The Night of Power; Winter; Thirteen; The Apprentice; If God Allows It; Damascus in a Different Light; The Last Squeeze; Buses, Airports, and Selfies; Enroute to Canada; Edmonton; Back to School; A New Language; Afterword; ENDNOTES; Abu Bakr's Acknowledgments; Winnie's Acknowledgments. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Biography. History. Personal narratives > Iraqi. |
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria â just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy â soccer, cousins, video games, friends. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone â and found safety in Canada â with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. As told to her by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, writer Winnie Yeung has crafted a heartbreaking, hopeful, and urgently necessary book that provides a window into understanding Syria.
