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  • The Doctor of Aleppo

  • A Novel
  • By: Dan Mayland
  • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
  • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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The Doctor of Aleppo

By: Dan Mayland
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
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While working in the ancient Silk Road city of Aleppo, American Hannah Johnson and her Swedish lover Oskar are drawn into the mounting turbulence of the impending Syrian civil war.

After Oskar is wounded at a street protest one evening, he and Hannah cross paths with Dr. Samir Hasan, a renowned surgeon. As the protests swell into all-out war, Dr. Hasan tends not only to Oskar, but also risks his life, his practice, and his family to tend to a nephew the government has branded an insurgent.

Dr. Hasan's humanitarian activities come to the attention of a vengeful, Javert-like secret police officer whose son's death on Dr. Hasan's watch triggers a series of events that will drag Hannah and Oskar deeper into the war and put Hannah and Dr. Hasan in the officer's crosshairs.

Both intimate and sweeping in scope, The Doctor of Aleppo lends insight into how the most brutal, devastating war of the 21st century is mirrored on the personal scale, leaving scars that can never be healed.

©2020 Dan Mayland (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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Great story

Heart breaking story, interesting, suspenseful. Makes me so happy to be living in the US. Reminds me to never take for granted the freedoms & way of life that we have been blessed with. Thank you to all those who fight every day to keep this country free and defend our borders. Thank you to the families of veterans. Thank you to relief workers & missionaries whom endanger their own lives to help others in desperate need. May God continue to Bless America. Great narration. Must listen.

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An epic tale of war and humanity

I loved this book! Like his previous books, Mayland's description of the people, geography and culture draws you into the world of his characters. However, the Doctor of Aleppo is much more personal that Mayland's Mark Saga series. It made me think of Doctor Zhivago. People trying to keep their humanity under devastating circumstances.

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Heart breaking

Anyone who is a doctor, nurse or worked voluntarily in a hospital will be affected.

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