Sea Prayer

Type

Book

Authors

Hosseini, Khaled

ISBN 10

073523678X

ISBN 13

9780735236783

Tags

Sea Stories, Literary, Refugees, Syria, Fathers and sons, Boat people

Abstract

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.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: War stories
Relief
War fiction
History
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hosseini, Khaled.
Sea prayer.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2018
(DLC) 2018025919
Named Person: Alan Kurdî; Alan Kurdî
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Khaled Hosseini; Dan Williams
ISBN: 9780525539094 0525539093 9780525539100 0525539107 9780735236783 073523678X
OCLC Number: 1039441769
Target Audience: 930L
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Khaled Hosseini ; illustrated by Dan Williams.

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