Fiction
The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War
by Sumia Sukkar
Description
Sumia Sukkar's The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War is about a 14-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome who attempts to understand the Syrian conflict and its effect on his life by painting his feelings. Yasmine, his beautiful older sister, devotes herself to him, but has to cope with her own traumas when she is taken by soldiers. Their three brothers also struggle – on whether or not to take sides and the consequences of their eventual choices.
The book has recently been dramatised by BBC Radio 4.
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Eyewear Publishing
The Black Spring Press Group consists of Eyewear Publishing and Black Spring Press. An independent book publishing group based in London, UK. Our books have been recommended by such figures as Vicki Feaver, Stephen Fry, Gina Miller, Salman Rushdie, and The Rev. Jesse Jackson. Our books appear in major bookshops across the UK, Ireland Canada and the USA, distributed by Booksource, LitDistCo and SPD. We are represented by Quantum Publishing Solutions sales team. Our authors include a Poet Laureate of Canada, a TS Eliot winner, a Pulitzer winner, and the world’s leading expert on John Ashbery. Our renowned pamphlet series has been shortlisted for the prestigious Michael Marks Award, given each year at The British Library. Our novels have been optioned for film, and adapted for radio and broadcast on the BBC.
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- Publisher Eyewear
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781908998460 / 1908998466
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8.99 GBP
- Pages330
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Copyright Year2015
- Dimensions195x130 mm
