What strange paradise.
What strange paradise.
By
:
El Akkad, Omar, 1982-
Publication Date
:
2021
Subject Term
:
Refugees -- Fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Political fiction.
Summary
:
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 has 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 she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780771050305
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