Il ragazzo di Aleppo che ha dipinto la guerra

This novel tells the story of a family’s intimate suffering in the midst of civil war with uncommon empathy and great imaginative power. Told from the perspective of a boy with Asperger’s syndrome who seeks to understand the Syrian conflict and its effects by painting his emotions, it is a literary reportage full of color from an unpredictable and terrifying place. Sumia Sukkar believes that the role of the Syrian artist today "is essential, as we must portray the beauty that still exists in Syria despite the ongoing war. Art is a powerful medium for expressing many things, and through my novel and Adam’s paintings, I have tried to express the inexpressible—because what may be lost in literal translation can live again through art."

Author: Sumia Sukkar (سُمَيَّة سُكَّر)

She is a young (born in 1992) British writer, the daughter of a Syrian father and an Algerian mother. Being a writer has always been her dream, which became a reality while attending the Creative Writing degree program at Kingston University in London. It was there that she met Dr. Todd Swift, a British-Canadian poet and director of Eyewear Publishing, who was deeply impressed by her writing (which was still a work in progress at the time) and encouraged her to persevere by offering her a publishing contract.