{"product_id":"rubble-9798887441948","title":"Rubble","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, \nand mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the \nrubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntombed in darkness \nwith no hope of rescue, he must navigate the thin edge between life and \ndeath using only his hearing, sense of smell, and the volatile power of \nhis imagination. Above him a genocide unfolds. Below, in his fragile \npocket of air, he begins to witness it in ways no unburied survivor ever\n could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs hours blur into days, hallucination and reality weave \ntogether. Memories seep through the cracks. Fantastical visions rise \nfrom the dust. In this liminal state, he gains a strange, heightened \nclarity, an almost supernatural insight known only to those suspended \nbetween worlds, the mortally wounded who hover in the space where time \nfractures and the mind sharpens to a blade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as \ndesperate escapism becomes a haunting chronicle of a people forced \nunderground by violence, a nation living beneath the weight of another’s\n 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\n wartime tale of resilience amid annihilation, this novel plunges \nreaders into the intimate terror of one man’s confinement and the \ncollective suffering of his shattered homeland. As he reflects, “Being \nunder the rubble is a strange thing. . . . You’re clinging to life not \nto live, but to defy death. Just because you’re breathing doesn’t mean \nyou’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","brand":"Seraj Assi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48547792290043,"sku":"9798887441948","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_8d22affb-f224-4f20-b812-87ce8aa7f56d.jpg?v=1774417461","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/rubble-9798887441948","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}