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Sea prayer / Khaled Hosseini ; illustrated by Dan Williams.

by Hosseini, Khaled.

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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

Refugees -- Fiction.

Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Refugees -- Fiction.

9780735236783 (hc.)

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

"This story, in a different version, formed the narration of 'Sea Prayer, a 360 story inspired by refugee Alan Kurdi,' an animated video published online by The Guardian"--Title page verso.

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.

On a moonlit beach, a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather's house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother's goat, the clanking of the cooking pots. And he remembers, too, the bustling city of Homs, with its crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk, in the days before the sky spat bombs and they had to flee. When the sun rises, they and those around them will gather their possessions and embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a new home.

Kurdî, Alan, 2012-2015.

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