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Central Branch | Largetype Fiction ElAkk | On loan until: 11/Apr/24 |
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Isabel Turner Branch | Largetype Fiction ElAkk | On loan until: 07/May/24 |
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Title Statement | What strange paradise / [largetype] / Omar El Akkad. |
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Author | El Akkad, Omar, 1982- |
Publication | New York: Random House Large Print,[2021]Ã2021 |
Edition | First large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 257 pages |
ISBN | 9780593396575 (pbk.) 059339657X (pbk.) |
Other Number | 4090069 |
Summary | Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers - all 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 who lives inside her own sense of homelessness. 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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Large type books |
Islands--Fiction | |
Helping behavior--Fiction | |
Teenage girls--Fiction | |
Shipwreck survival--Fiction | |
Refugee children--Fiction--Syria |