| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, 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, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe. |
| Audience |
Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 6 |
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930 Lexile. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Riverhead Books, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB). |
| Subject |
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Refugees -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
War stories.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780525539094 |
| ISBN |
9780525541295 (electronic bk) |
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