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008			200508s2021 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2020021749
020			_a9780525657903 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0525657908 _q(hardcover)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dSKYRV
042			_apcc
050			_aPS3605 .L12 _bW48 2021
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aEl Akkad, Omar, _d1982-
245	1	0	_aWhat strange paradise / _cOmar El Akkad.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2021.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2021.
300			_a235 pages ; _c20 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_a"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, 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 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 Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and of 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. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aRefugees _vFiction.
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration _vFiction.
650		0	_aChildren _vFiction.
650		0	_aIslands _vFiction.
655		7	_aSocial problem fiction. _2lcgft.
942			_2lcc
999			_c506336 _d506336