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Riverhead Books
September 2018
On Sale: September 18, 2018
48 pages
ISBN: 0525539093
EAN: 9780525539094
Kindle: B07DMYVTHM
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Literature and Fiction | Childrens
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The
Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And
the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the
current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully
illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages,
all over the world. 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
up on 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. Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read writers in
the world, with more than fifty-five million copies of his
novels sold worldwide in more than seventy countries.
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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