LONGLISTED for the 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for TRANSLATED LITERATURE "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...