The Book Collectors

“An extraordinary story about the passion for books in war-torn Syria . . . Shelve this one next to Reading Lolita in Tehran . Heartbreaking, inspiring.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A Best Book of the Year: NPR Outside of Damascus, Daraya is the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Since 2012, every single day, bombs fell on this place—a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbl