{"product_id":"your-presence-is-a-danger-to-your-life-paperback","title":"Your Presence Is A Danger To Your Life (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the year following 7 October 2023, Samar Yazbek met with\nhundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experiences of\nthat day and the months of destruction and displacement that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e From these encounters\ncomes \u003ci\u003eYour Presence Is a Danger to Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e, a selection of\ntwenty-six testimonies from ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five,\nwhose lives have been irrevocably altered by what may one day be remembered as\none of the most savage military offensives of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAdapted from warning flyers dropped moments before a\nbombing, the book’s title captures the impossible reality of life for Gazans.\nThat reality is laid bare in accounts marked by unimaginable loss – homes\nshattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated – and mechanisms of cruelty\nthat defy comprehension.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e In gathering these\ntestimonies, Yazbek brings into focus the human lives behind the headlines, and\nthe survivors’ determination, even amid devastation, to speak and to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamar Yazbek\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1970, is a Syrian writer and\njournalist. A prominent advocate for human and women’s rights, she took part in\nthe 2011 popular uprising against the Assad regime and was forced into exile\nsoon after. She was named one of the Beirut39 most promising authors under the\nage of forty in 2010 and was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize International Writer\nof Courage Award in 2012, followed by the Swedish Tucholsky Prize and the Dutch\nOxfam\/PEN Prize. In 2022, she was selected as one of twelve International Writers\nby the Royal Society of Literature. Yazbek has published two collections of\nshort stories, seven novels and four non-fiction literary narratives, and has\nbeen translated into over twenty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeri Price\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning literary translator of\ncontemporary Arabic fiction. She has been a Finalist for the National Book\nAward for Translated Literature three times: in 2024 for her translation of\nSamar Yazbek’s \u003ci\u003eWhere the Wind Calls Home\u003c\/i\u003e; in 2021 for her\ntranslation of Samar Yazbek’s \u003ci\u003ePlanet of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e; and in 2019 for\nKhaled Khalifa’s \u003ci\u003eDeath is Hard Work\u003c\/i\u003e, which also won the 2020 Saif\nGhobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45068315066575,"sku":"9781804272411","price":34.34,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_76424b51-ccc8-48f6-ac7a-400eca6ceafc.jpg?v=1779089207","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/your-presence-is-a-danger-to-your-life-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}