![]() ![]() But Ameer and Sameer are dead, Salim missing. While he is being treated, Tareq shows the doctor pictures on his phone of his siblings and learns that Susan will be fine. The bodies of his mother, tetya and his younger sister Farrah are pulled from the crushed apartment building and Tareq is sent to the hospital. He remembers his brother Salim who has great affection for their sisters and his love of soccer.īut Tareq's nightmare is all too real as he is pulled from the ruins by men in white helmets. ![]() While trapped beneath the slab of concrete that had been his family's kitchen wall, Tareq dreams of his family, his five month-old twin brothers, his sisters watching television, his mother making food and his tetya (grandmother) drinking tea. On a hot summer night in 2015, Tareq's family was shattered forever when his neighbourhood was bombed. The family was not well off but their small apartment was filled with love. Tareq's paternal grandmother also lived with them. Eventually his family came to include his brother Salim who was two years younger, his younger sisters Farrah and Susan and the twins Ameer and Sameer. This deeply moving novel makes the Syrian refugee crisis painfully real to young readers. ![]() ![]() A Land of Permanent Goodbyes tells the story of one boy's journey to escape war in his beloved Syria. ![]()
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