In a devastated future, Rached, a rebel turned loyal, starts running money schemes that benefit the Castle. Finally in a position of great power, Rached will indirectly cause the Second Dog War, which will lead him to his end.

An illegal emigrant writes a letter to his lover; a torturer on the run writes his mother… 5 letters accidentally linked to each other.
 

It is a fresh, funny and immensely clever take on what life is like for your average millennial in an unstable corrupt country – where anything is possible, and nothing can be relied upon.  

The women of Syria have to fight not only the Regime, or the Islamist rebels; they have to fight the whole of a patriarchal society, including male revolutionaries. Yazbek collects their stories.