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What Strange Paradise
A Novel
Taschenbuch von Omar El Akkad
Sprache: Englisch

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"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 Vèanna: 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. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward 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, it 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"--
"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 Vèanna: 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. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward 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, it 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"--
Über den Autor
Omar El Akkad
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: 256 S.
ISBN-13: 9781984899248
ISBN-10: 1984899244
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: El Akkad, Omar
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Vintage Books
Maße: 201 x 129 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Omar El Akkad
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,26 kg
preigu-id: 121141747
Über den Autor
Omar El Akkad
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: 256 S.
ISBN-13: 9781984899248
ISBN-10: 1984899244
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: El Akkad, Omar
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Vintage Books
Maße: 201 x 129 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Omar El Akkad
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,26 kg
preigu-id: 121141747
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