 | ISBN: 978-0-89410-780-1 $16.00 | |
| 1994/217 pages/LC: 94-25027 | ||
A revealing study of a girl growing to maturity in middle-class Syria and of her family’s struggle to survive in the tumultuous years of 1940–1961 in Damascus. Attar’s work shows a keen eye for the daily scene, a keen ear for conversation, and a tragic sense of history. Reflecting the rapid sociopolitical changes in Syria that exalted some, but crushed others, it marks anew the patterns of family life, love, and death.