Yawen Xue, Author at The Stanford Daily

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‘A Land of Permanent Goodbyes’ offers shallow view of Syrian refugee crisis

by Yawen Xue — August 20, 2019August 20, 2019No Comments

The novel provides a lasting image of the devastation of war, yet it glosses over issues completely intertwined with the war in Syria, and in the end it’s incomplete.