![]() ![]() 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, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. 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. ![]() 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113įrom the widely acclaimed author of American War: a new novel-beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving-that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes.More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. ![]()
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