No, errors and chaos are part of how the system works. This is not an error that might be corrected. It isn′t until he′s at Tadmur – surrounded by jailers on one side and Islamists on the other – that the new reality sinks into Musa′s skin. He even tells his jailers he′s an atheist, to which they respond with even more vigorous torture. He′s still filled with the sounds and smells of his life in Paris and he had never purposefully engaged in politics. When he′s picked up at the Damascus airport and accused of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he can′t quite take it seriously. The book′s narrator, Musa, is an atheist from a Christian family. The anti-government protests, violence and mass exodus of Syrians since 2011 means much of the world has come within the orbit of news from that country But Syria′s story is no longer just a local or regional one. "The Shell" created powerful waves among Syrian readers when it was first released.
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