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The Pianist of Yarmouk

The Pianist of Yarmouk

Author(s): Aeham Ahmad

Location(s): Damascus

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Contemporary

One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed by war.

Amidst ruin and despair, he begins to play. He plays of love and hope, he plays for his family and his fellow Syrians. He plays even though he could be killed for doing so.

As word of his defiance spreads around the world, he becomes a beacon of hope and even resistance. Yet he fears for his wife and children – the more he plays, the more he and his family are endangered until, finally, he must make a terrible choice . . .

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