![]() ![]() And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. Vänna 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. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. 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. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. ![]() “Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic.” -The New York Times Book Review ![]() King’s Co-op Bookstore in partnership with The Frye Festival is thrilled to be hosting a discussion and book signing with Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his newest novel What Strange Paradise. ![]()
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