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Where the Wind Calls Home

by Samar Yazbek

A soldier’s memories amid the Syrian civil war

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    2024 National Book Award finalist

    2024 National Book Award finalist

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A soldier’s memories amid the Syrian civil war

After an explosion at his patrol station in the Lattakia mountains, nineteen-year-old Ali struggles to make sense of his injuries and surroundings. Vignettes from his memories open onto the hardships of his traditional Alawite village alongside its cultural and religious heritage. The novel also explores Alawite faith through its relationship with nature and the elements, connecting Ali’s immediate experience of war with the life of the community he comes from.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set against the Syrian civil war
  • Readers seeking novels that explore Alawite culture, faith, and village life

Themes

War and its consequencesAlawite cultural and religious heritageNature and faithMemory and community

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Book overview

2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

"The potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol station's 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains. This slim novel packs a punch."-Publishers Weekly

Ali, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole--is this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion, wasn't there ... While trying to understand the extend of the damage, Ali works his way closer to the tree. His ultimate desire is to fly up to one of its branches, to safety. Through rich vignettes of Ali's memories, we uncover the hardships of his traditional Syrian Alawite village, but also the richness and beauty of its cultural and religious heritage. Yazbek here explores the secrets of the Alawite faith and its relationship to nature and the elements in a tight poetic novel dense with life and hope and love.

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