What Strange Paradise

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EAN:9781524712075
A Novel
Manufacturer: Random House LCC US

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From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War: a new novel-beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving-that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, 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 back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir's life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair-and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.
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Podnázev A Novel
Druh sortimentu Kniha
Autor Omar El Akkad
Značka Random House LCC US
Rok vydání 2021
Pořadí vydání 1. vydání
Vazba Brožovaná bez přebalu matná
Počet stran 256
ISBN 1524712078
EAN 9781524712075
Interní kód 0357075
Produktový manažer Jana Knopová (jana.knopova@knihcentrum.cz)
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