Sea prayer / Khaled Hosseini ; illustrated by Dan Williams.
By: Hosseini, Khaled [author.]
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Contributor(s): Williams, Dan (David Andrew Neil) [illustrator.].
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TextPublisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin House LLC, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525539094; 0525539093; 9780525539100; 0525539107.Subject(s): Kurdî, Alan, 2012-2015 -- Fiction | Refugees -- Fiction | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction | War storiesDDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution.
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Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution.
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