The Book Collectors: A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A WarA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR "An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." Susan Orlean Award winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes,