What strange paradise / Omar El Akkad.
Material type: TextPublisher: [Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: Hardcover editionDescription: 235 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0771050305 (hardcover)
- 9780771050305 (hardcover)
- FIC
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC ElAkk (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Shortlisted 2021 Giller Award | 28685 |
Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers - all 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 who lives inside her own sense of homelessness. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and 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.
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