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Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising
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A blistering firsthand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones
“We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they’re only fighting to save their skin.”
In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For three weeks, he watched as neighborhoods were bombed and innocent civilians murdered. His notes on what he saw on the ground speak directly of horrors that continue today in the ongoing civil war.
Amid the chaos, Littell bears witness to the lives and the hopes of freedom fighters, of families caught within the conflict, as well as of the doctors who attempt to save both innocents and combatants who come under fire. As government forces encircle the city, Littell charts the first stirrings of the fundamentalist movement that would soon hijack the revolution.
Littell’s notebooks were originally the raw material for the articles he wrote upon his return for the French daily Le Monde. Published nearly immediately afterward in France, Syrian Notebooks has come to form an incomparable close-up account of a war that still grips the Middle East—a classic of war reportage.
“We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they’re only fighting to save their skin.”
In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For three weeks, he watched as neighborhoods were bombed and innocent civilians murdered. His notes on what he saw on the ground speak directly of horrors that continue today in the ongoing civil war.
Amid the chaos, Littell bears witness to the lives and the hopes of freedom fighters, of families caught within the conflict, as well as of the doctors who attempt to save both innocents and combatants who come under fire. As government forces encircle the city, Littell charts the first stirrings of the fundamentalist movement that would soon hijack the revolution.
Littell’s notebooks were originally the raw material for the articles he wrote upon his return for the French daily Le Monde. Published nearly immediately afterward in France, Syrian Notebooks has come to form an incomparable close-up account of a war that still grips the Middle East—a classic of war reportage.
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Jonathan Littell
Jonathan Littell was born in New York to American parents, and grew up in the United States and France. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Written more like a travelogue/journal, Littell admits upfront in the Introduction that he has reproduced the notebooks as a collection of his observations, thoughts and feelings from January 16 to February 2, 2012. Thankfully, the Verso edition I read includes and epilogue where Littell admits that as bad as he thought things were in Homs while there, it was after Littell was safely evacuated to Lebanon and back in Paris that "things in Homes really went haywire. I thought that what I had seen was violent enough, and I thought I knew what violent means. But I was wrong." If you have been living under a rock for the past few years and have no idea of the Syrian conflict, Littell does a great job encapsulating the various factions involved, the manipulations of the Bashar al-Assad government, and the countless senseless atrocities. The notebooks were used as a basis for the Le Monde articles Littell wrote - Littell went into Syria to record events for the newspaper - but I think the very raw, disjointed nature of Littell's notes do a better job of communicating the chaos and the horrors. Recommended.