What strange paradise
El Akkad, Omar, 1982-2022
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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 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.
Main title:
What strange paradise / Omar El Akkad.
Author:
El Akkad, Omar, 1982-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
237 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
ISBN:
9781529069495 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2289093
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