The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq
Littérature (biographies), Essais et documents généraux, Guerre, Voyages et géographie, Femmes (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Alia Muhammed Baker is the librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now Alia fears that the library and the 30,000 books within it will be… destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians, especially women, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries. For preschool-grade 2