Product details
- ISBN 9781784164928
- Weight: 267g
- Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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'An incredible book. Profoundly affecting and deeply soulful. This book will stay with me forever.' Ruth Jones, the Sunday Times bestselling author of By Your Side
I don't know how you've made it this far . . .
Sami's childhood is much like any other - school with his friends, dinners with his family, playing with his pets (stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof).
But with Syria at war with itself, nothing is really normal. And Sami's hopes for a better future are about to be ripped away.
Inspired by extraordinary true events, The Stray Cats of Homs is the breathtaking story of a young man who will do anything to keep the dream of home alive.
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'An absolutely riveting novel and a searing and incredibly important book. Storytelling at its best.' Donal Ryan
'Warm, captivating and inspiring.' Mike Thomson, author of Syria's Secret Library
'Compelling and uncompromising' BBC Radio 4, Sunday
Eva Nour (Author)
Eva Nour is a journalist writing under a pseudonym. She was inspired to write The Stray Cats of Homs, her debut novel, by meeting and falling in love with the real 'Sami'. Today the couple share a life together in Paris.
Agnes Broomé (Translator)
Agnes Broomé is a literary translator and Preceptor in Scandinavian at Harvard University, with a PhD in Translation Studies. Her translations include August Prize winners The Expedition by Bea Uusma and The Gospel of the Eels by Patrik Svensson, and international bestseller For the Missing by Lina Bengtsdotter.
