{"product_id":"rubble-seraj-assi-9798887441948","title":"Rubble","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, \u003cbr\u003eand mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the \u003cbr\u003erubble of a bombing--alive, but barely.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntombed in darkness \u003cbr\u003ewith no hope of rescue, he must navigate the thin edge between life and \u003cbr\u003edeath using only his hearing, sense of smell, and the volatile power of \u003cbr\u003ehis imagination. Above him a genocide unfolds. Below, in his fragile \u003cbr\u003epocket of air, he begins to witness it in ways no unburied survivor ever\u003cbr\u003e could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs hours blur into days, hallucination and reality weave \u003cbr\u003etogether. Memories seep through the cracks. Fantastical visions rise \u003cbr\u003efrom the dust. In this liminal state, he gains a strange, heightened \u003cbr\u003eclarity, an almost supernatural insight known only to those suspended \u003cbr\u003ebetween worlds, the mortally wounded who hover in the space where time \u003cbr\u003efractures and the mind sharpens to a blade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as \u003cbr\u003edesperate escapism becomes a haunting chronicle of a people forced \u003cbr\u003eunderground by violence, a nation living beneath the weight of another's\u003cbr\u003e cruelty. In the darkness, he discovers a grim sanctuary: \u003ci\u003ethe rubble is a tomb but also a refuge from the firestorm above.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA\u003cbr\u003e wartime tale of resilience amid annihilation, Seraj Assi's debut novel plunges \u003cbr\u003ereaders into the intimate terror of one man's confinement and the \u003cbr\u003ecollective suffering of his shattered homeland. As he reflects, \"Being \u003cbr\u003eunder the rubble is a strange thing. . . . You're clinging to life not \u003cbr\u003eto live, but to defy death. Just because you're breathing doesn't mean \u003cbr\u003eyou're alive. You're a ghost, and your homeland is but a ghostland.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a people driven underground not by myth or choice, but by force: \u003ci\u003e\"We are subterranean only because others refuse to allow us our place under the sun.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seraj Assi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798887441948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Seraj Assi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801198276863,"sku":"9798887441948","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rubble-seraj-assi-9798887441948","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}