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What Strange Paradise (häftad, eng)
<p><b>‘Deserves to be an instant classic. I haven’t loved a book this much in a long time . . . <i>Wha...
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<p><b>‘Deserves to be an instant classic. I haven’t loved a book this much in a long time . . . <i>What Strange Paradise </i>. . . reads as a parable for our times . . . Such beautiful writing . . . This is an extraordinary book.’ </b><b>– <i>The </i></b><b><i>New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>From the widely acclaimed author of <i>American War</i>, 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.</b><br><br>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 Vänna: 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 Vänna and Amir are complete strangers and don’t speak a common language, Vänna determines to do whatever it takes to save him.<br><br>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 <i>What Strange Paradise</i> 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.</p>
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 Vänna: 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 Vänna and Amir are complete strangers and don’t speak a common language, Vänna determines to do whatever it takes to save him.<br><br>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 <i>What Strange Paradise</i> 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.</p>
| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 256 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Pan Macmillan |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2022-08-18 |
| ISBN | 9781529069495 |
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- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 238
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Books Ltd
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-08-18
- ISBN 9781529069495
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 238
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Books Ltd
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-08-18
- ISBN 9781529069495