Description
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for individuals who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library–together with the thirty thousand books within it–will likely be des troyed endlessly. In a war-stricken country where civilians–especially women–have little power, this true story about a librarian’s struggle to save lots of her community’s priceless selection of books reminds us all how, all through the arena, the affection of litera ture and the honour for knowledge know no boundaries.