What strange paradise / Omar El Akkad.

By:

El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: Hardcover editionDescription: 235 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0771050305 (hardcover)
9780771050305 (hardcover)

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Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Fiction	Fiction	FIC ElAkk (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Shortlisted 2021 Giller Award		28685

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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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