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El Akkad, Omar, 1982-
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Refugee children -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Giller Prize.
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El Akkad, Omar, 1982-
Refugee children -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Giller Prize.
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What
strange
paradise
(book club
kit
- fiction) / Omar El Akkad.
by
El Akkad, Omar, 1982-
McClelland & Stewart, 2021.
Call #:
BOOK CLUB
KIT
FICTION AKK
Subjects
Refugee children -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Giller Prize.
URL856
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Information kit for "What strange paradise"
ISBN:
9780771050305 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Book club
kit
:
What
strange
paradise
Bookclub
kit
:
What
strange
paradise
Description:
10 copies, 256 p.
Notes:
Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the
kit
, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.
Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This
kit
includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Omar El Akkad's "
What
strange
paradise
", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The
kit
is available to borrow for 6 weeks.
Summary:
"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. 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. 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. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. 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. But as the novel unfurls, we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Giller Prize, 2021.
Genre:
Book Club
Kit
Literary fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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