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Fragments of Memory
Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family | ?ann? M?nah
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Fragments of Memory is an autibiographical novel about the life of a boy born to a poor family in northern Syria. Mina sets these personal events against a richly detailed description of events in the history of early 20th Century Syria, as the silkworm industry gave way to modern foreign technology. The mode of life described is one of a bygone era.
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This book was devastating for the fact that its largely autobiographical: the author‘s account of abysmal poverty as he grows up within a family attempting to make ends meet as itinerant workers/serfs, his older sisters sold into servitude for cruel landowners, his parents trying to fend off the miseries of locust swarms, dysentery and starvation, all while Syria navigates the end of the French Mandate and its wobbly first years of independence.