Khaled Hosseini
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| Original Title: | Sea Prayer ASIN B079WM7Z7T |
| Edition Language: | English |
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A short, powerful, illustrated book written by 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. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
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| Title | : | Sea Prayer |
| Author | : | Khaled Hosseini |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 48 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 2018 by Riverhead Books (first published August 30th 2018) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Fiction. Short Stories. Historical. Historical Fiction. Childrens. Picture Books. War |
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Sea Prayer is heartbreaking but I will gladly read it over and over. Dan Williams illustrations really convey the message of the poem, and Khaled Hosseinis words are beautiful, sentimental and tender. It was disconcerting to learn that the hope and the yearning conveyed herein were inspired by such a tragic event. I hope that because of this book, many more positive outcomes will occur in the future.I'm speechless and crying. With a few words and some illustrations this guy told the world all that is to tell
This book is short but haunting and powerful. I've loved Khaled Hosseini for his other books and his brilliant, meaningful writing definitely shines through in this one even though it's so brief. I can't wait to get my own copy.
Wave after wave......From calm seas of memories to the over-powering turbulence of the present, Khaled Hosseini presents a story drifting from father to son in the form of a tragic letter. From the shores of chaos come words that touch the lips and soften the heart in slow steady beats. What was is no longer and what will be is only for fate to decide.Hosseini's father figure grasps the small hand of his son and tries to paint within him a canvas of what life was like in his grandfather's house
I read this short offering by Hosseini, an author I very much admire, in a matter of minutes. In the title is the word prayer, and it is a prayer to a child, a people, young people who will never know the country of their birth, Syria, without bombs, towns in ruins and starvation. Not the vibrant place it had been. A prayer to all people for compassion, understanding, for a little hope for the refugees fleeing for their life. The illustrations are beautifully wrought, from color to black and
5★The skies spitting bombs.Starvation.Burials.These are the things you know.You do realise, that if these are things you don't know first-hand, you're just lucky, don't you? I sure do!This is a most moving tribute to the countless, unlucky people displaced by war which is a polite way of saying to those whose homes and towns have been bombed to smithereens so they have nowhere safe to live. "I have heard it said we are the uninvited./ We are the unwelcome./ We should take our misfortune
This short yet very powerful book left me with a broken heart.In September 2015 a photograph made global headlines which was taken by Nilüfer Demir, a Turkish photojournalist, and photographer based in Bodrum, Turkey. The photograph was of a young boy on a beach, fully clothed but lying face-down at the water's edge, like an exhausted toddler who had awkwardly fallen asleep. The young boy named Alan Kurdi, three-year-old Syrian refugee became a symbol of the plight of so many others fleeing
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