Where the Wind Calls Home
Profound, necessary and all too familiar, this is a brutal war story told through the eyes of a nineteen-year-old soldier as he lays dying. Told in dual timelines between death and life, memory and introspection, this is a bold and compassionate read.
“The potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol station’s 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains. This slim novel packs a punch.”—Publishers Weekly
Ali, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole—is this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion, wasn’t there ... While trying ...




