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The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War chronicles the struggles of a family in the midst of the Syrian civil war. Told mainly from the perspective of Adam, a young man with Asperger syndrome, it achieves the dignity of a true report from an unpredictable and frightening place.
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Sumia Sukkar is a 21-year-old British writer of Syrian-Algerian ancestry. She lives between London and Dubai and currently works for Abu Dhabi Film Festival. 'The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War' is her debut novel.
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Adam is a 14-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome trying to understand the Syrian conflict and its effect on his life, so he paints his feelings. Yasmine, his beautiful older sister devotes herself to Adam, sacrificing her true happiness as she tries to protect the ones she loves. But Yasmine herself has to cope with her own traumas when she is taken by soldiers. Their three brothers, too, struggle - on whether or not to take sides, and the consequences of their choices.
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