A prize-winning journalist unveils a sprawling saga of life in war-torn Syria.
This fearless work of firsthand reporting by award-winning journalist and New Yorker contributor Rania Abouzeid weaves a tapestry of rebels and exiles, radical Islamists and their victims amid the deadliest conflict of the century thus far—the Syrian War. We witness peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence; families on both sides shattered by nighttime shellings and military raids; religious conviction sharpened to a radical point by a deeply felt rage; the unraveling of a nation.
Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back presents Syrian war reportage of unprecedented scope. Abouzeid shows Syrians finding new means to live and resist even as the cruelty of Assad's dictatorial regime—and the rising threat of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State—tear their homeland apart. These disparate lives intersect in incredible ways, forming an...