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原文为阿拉伯文，有英语书稿
 
'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer
 
'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael Palin
 
Samar Yazbek 是一位叙利亚作家和记者。2011年时，她因为倒阿萨德(Bashar al-Assad) 政权，被迫放逐。
 
自此，坚决要让世人知道叙利亚人民受苦的真相，她勇敢的穿过土耳其边境的小洞，回到自己的国家。在《走入叙利亚破碎的心脏》一书中，她完整呈现了叙利亚当前的恶劣现实。她记述了第一场民主活动、叙利亚自由军、ISIS的到来….她拍摄了许多士兵、孩童、平民百姓…这些人只是想活下来… 其中有很多故事是我们无法忍受的，艰难又残酷，但她也记述了一路上，她所见到的人性光芒：人们如何在狙击手的注视下生活…有原则的年轻男子如何对抗军方上司的命令… 孩子们如何适应地堡...
 
Yazbek笔下的叙利亚生活非常真实，她的文字让人耳目一新。《走入叙利亚破碎的心脏》无疑是一本重要的历史文献也是一部意义非凡的文学作品。
 
本书好评
"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)
 
"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)
 
"Gripping... Does the important job of putting faces to the numbing numbers of Syria’s crisis..." (Economist)
 
"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)
 
关于作者
出生于1970年的Samar Yazbek念的是文学，后来成为一名记者，也为叙利亚电视及电影写剧本。她的作品包括：小说Cinnamon与 A Woman In The Crossfire-这本是她在叙利亚崛起，头四个月的日记，这本书已经拿下许多奖项。她目前住在巴黎。