2
0
Support the library.
Your support helps keep books free for everyone ❤️
📍 Noticed
What Strange Paradise
by Omar El Akkad
Sponsored
Synopsis
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But ...
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vanna. Vanna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vanna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, Vanna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy.
In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir's life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.
In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir's life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.
You May Also Like
Advent: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure (The Exlian Syndrome Series Book 1)
Seth Ring
A Clergyman's Daughter
George Orwell
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Chuck Klosterman
The Julia Rothman Collection: Farm Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and Food Anatomy
Julia Rothman
My Heart Speaks Kriolu
Stefanie Foster Brown
Reflection
Diane Chamberlain
Travel Picks
View All
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Nathalia Holt
El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo
Javier Cercas
Five Found Dead
Sulari Gentill
My Favorite Bad Decision
Elizabeth O'Roark
The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett
The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny Love and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
Tilar J. Mazzeo