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Born in 1970, Samar Yazbek studied literature before beginning her career as a journalist and a scriptwriter for Syrian television and cinema. Her translated work includes the novel, Cinnamon, and A Woman In The Crossfire, her diaries of the first four months of the Syrian uprising, which has won many prizes. She lives in Paris.
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 * An eloquent, gripping and harrowing account of the country's decline into barbarism by an incredibly brave Syrian * Irish Times * Brave, rebellious and passionate...Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident * Financial Times * 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 *
