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The optician of Lampedusa : based on a true story / Emma-Jane Kirby.

by Kirby, Emma Jane.

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OR Books, 2017.

Refugees -- Fiction.

Shipwrecks -- Fiction.

Lampedusa Island (Italy) -- Fiction.

Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.

9781944869151 (trade pbk.)

1944869158 (trade pbk.)

184 p. ; 21 cm.

"The only optician on the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean is an ordinary man in his fifties, who used to be indifferent to the fate of the thousands of refugees landing on the coast of the Italian island. One day in the fall of 2013, the unimaginable scale of the tragedy became clear to him, and it changed him forever: as he was out boating with some friends, he encountered hundreds of men, women and children drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck. The Optician and his seven friends managed to save 47 people (his boat was designed to hold ten people). All the others died. This is a poignant and unforgettable account about the awakening of conscience: more than that, it brings home the reality of an ongoing refugee crisis that has resulted in one of the most massive migrations in human history."--From publisher.

Literary fiction.

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