City of sparrows
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Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2020.
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Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2020.
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294 pages ; 24 cm
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Originally published in the UK by Penguin Random House UK under the title The Stray Cats of Homs.
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"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company--which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve his time and go home, even as he finds himself literally charting the course of the army's response to the growing revolt. The situation that hits him full-force when he receives a text from his girlfriend: "They're shooting at us." With that, Sami realizes that it is not enough to endure Assad's regime--he has to resist. He has to return home, to the city that will become known as the "capital of the revolution." Based on true events as told to journalist Eva Nour, City of Sparrows is the story of coming of age under siege and the power of hope in the face of unfathomable loss" --

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nour, E. (2020). City of sparrows . Melville House Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nour, Eva. 2020. City of Sparrows. Melville House Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nour, Eva. City of Sparrows Melville House Publishing, 2020.

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Nour, Eva. City of Sparrows Melville House Publishing, 2020.

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