Brothers of the gun

"A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom." — Amazon.com.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 300 pages

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