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| Title Statement | Small boat / Vincent Delecroix ; translated by Helen Stevenson. |
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| Author | Delecroix, Vincent, 1969- |
| Additional Contributors | Stevenson, Helen |
| Delecroix, Vincent,1969- | |
| Publication | Leeds: Small Axes, an imprint of HopeRoad Publishing,2025. |
| Extent of Item | 122 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781913109370 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr08094448 |
| General Notes | "The International Booker Prize 2025, longlisted"--Cover. Originally published in France 2023. |
| Languages | In English, translated from the French. |
| Summary | In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix's fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Assistance in emergencies--Fiction |
| Dinghies--Fiction | |
| Immigrants--Fiction--Death | |
| By Location | English Channel--Fiction |
| By Genre | Psychological fiction |
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