Rubble, (Paperback)

<p><b>In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, <br>and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the <br>rubble of a bombing--alive, but barely.</b></p><p>Entombed in darkness <br>with no hope of rescue, he must navigate the thin edge between life and <br>death using only his hearing, sense of smell, and the volatile power of <br>his imagination. Above him a genocide unfolds. Below, in his fragile <br>pocket of air, he begins to witness it in ways no unburied survivor ever<br> could.</p><p>As hours blur into days, hallucination and reality weave <br>together. Memories seep through the cracks. Fantastical visions rise <br>from the dust. In this liminal state, he gains a strange, heightened <br>clarity, an almost supernatural insight known only to those suspended <br>between worlds, the mortally wounded who hover in the space where time <br>fractures and the mind sharpens to a blade.</p><p>What begins as <br>desperate escapism becomes a haunting chronicle of a people forced <br>underground by violence, a nation living beneath the weight of another's<br> cruelty. In the darkness, he discovers a grim sanctuary: <i>the rubble is a tomb but also a refuge from the firestorm above.</i></p><p>A<br> wartime tale of resilience amid annihilation, Seraj Assi's debut novel plunges <br>readers into the intimate terror of one man's confinement and the <br>collective suffering of his shattered homeland. As he reflects, "Being <br>under the rubble is a strange thing. . . . You're clinging to life not <br>to live, but to defy death. Just because you're breathing doesn't mean <br>you're alive. You're a ghost, and your homeland is but a ghostland."</p><p>This is the story of a people driven underground not by myth or choice, but by force: <i>"We are subterranean only because others refuse to allow us our place under the sun."</i></p>

• Rubble, (Paperback)
• Author: Seraj Assi
• ISBN: 9798887441948
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-08
• Page Count: 160