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|author=Sumia Sukkar
|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the War
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a book about colour against the grey backdrop of the Syrian civil war. Adam, the 14-year-old narrator, is an artist who describes emotion, people and things in colour. Through colour, he makes sense of the world. So his sister, Yasmine, 'is usually ruby' although at times she is grey or green. Adam’s views are simple, uncomplicated – he says ‘Lying is bad’, ‘I don’t like the war’ and ‘[Paintings] always say the right things’.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908998466</amazonuk>
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|author=Tony Ross
I never heard the original radio series and I have quite deliberately shied away from the Americanised film version (even if it does sell itself well by having Stephen Fry as 'the voice of the book' - I mean, really, in this day and age, who else?!).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809437X</amazonuk>
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