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A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
by Anand Gopal
From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip Gourevitch and Katherine Boo.
In 2011, in a northern Syrian city, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal dictatorship. For the next eighteen months, many of the citizens of Manbij carried out one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times.
Days of Love and Rage details the powerfully intimate narratives of the men and women who led this struggle, and who experienced the highs of camaraderie and the lows of betrayal. Among them: a pair of best friends torn apart by political polarization, a mother who stands up to male dominance, and a worker who risks everything for the dream of equality.
Anand Gopal immerses you in the world of a single city in the throes of revolution, and lays bare the danger that inequality poses to democracy. But this book transcends the particulars of one terrible conflict to tell the broader story of rising authoritarianism in our times. Days of Love and Rage has the force, sweep, and artistry of a great novel, and is ultimately a story of our enduring human need for dignity and hope.
"Brave, inventive reporting yields an important account of an uprising that shook the Middle East." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A sweeping tour-de-force of investigative journalism" —Time Magazine
"An awesome feat of reporting and storytelling. Gopal has managed to distill a sweeping history of the Syrian revolution into a tale that is rousing, vivid, heartbreaking, and unforgettable." —Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the bestseller Empire of Pain
"Days of Love and Rage is an astonishing book about the limits of fear, the way obsession with one value can mutate into a kind of tyranny, and the struggle to find logic and meaning in history and in personal sacrifice. It is also a riveting portrait of a community of remarkable people who managed to remain open to the world, even as it closed in on them. It's hard for me to imagine a better work of nonfiction than this." —Rachel Aviv, New York Times bestselling author of Strangers to Ourselves
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Anand Gopal is a writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of No Good Men Among the Living and writes about democracy, inequality, and conflict.
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