The Crossing
My journey to the shattered heart of Syria
- Published: 2 July 2015
- ISBN: 9781473527942
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
I much admire Samar for her literary skill, and her bravery
Carol Ann Duffy
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
Perhaps the finest single account of Syria's revolution
New Internationalist
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
Gripping... Does the important job of putting faces to the numbing numbers of Syria’s crisis...
Economist
Harrowing…a chilling account of the brutality faced by people living in Syria…
Daily Mail (Online)
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
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