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|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the War

|sort=Boy from Aleppo who Painted the War, The

|publisher=Eyewear Publishing

|date=October 2014

|summary=A powerful and haunting account by a 14-year-old boy of the Syrian civil war and its effects on his immediate and extended family. A bleak, disturbing, haunting, beautiful, unmissable read.

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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’.