What Strange Paradise
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Krátky popis
'Deserves to be an instant classic. I haven't loved a book this
much in a long time . .. What Strange Paradise . .. reads as a
parable for our times . .. Such beautiful writing . .. This is an
extraordinary book.' - New York TimesFrom the widely acclaimed
author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written,
unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the
global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes. More
bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island.Another
over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the
weight of its too-many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians,
Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable
lives in their homelands. And only one had made the passage:
nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall
into the hands not of the officials, but of Vanna: a teenage girl,
native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of
homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain.
And though Vanna and Amir are complete strangers and don't speak a
common language, Vanna determines to do whatever it takes to save
him.In alternating chapters, we learn the story of Amir's life and
of how he came to be on the ship, and we follow the duo as they
make their way towards a vision of safety. But as the novel
unfurls, we begin to understand that this is not merely the story
of two children finding their way through a hostile world. Omar El
Akkad's What Strange Paradise is the story of our collective moment
in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair -
and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or
guide us to a better one.
Výber kníh autorov
Pan Macmillan ,
El Akkad Omar
Zobraziť všetky knihy autora
Pan Macmillan,
El Akkad Omar
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
Zobraziť všetky knihy vydavateľa
Slovart
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