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'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times

'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told' Fiona Wilson, The Times

'An important book ... I cried all the way through' Tracy Chevalier

From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship and the awakening of courage and conscience.

'I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that terrible noise. I hardly want to. You won't understand because you weren't there. You can't understand. You see, I thought I'd heard seagulls screeching. Seagulls fighting over a lucky catch. Birds. Just birds.'

Emma-Jane Kirby has reported extensively on the reality of mass migration today. In The Optician of Lampedusa she brings to life the moving testimony of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780141985220
BY (AUTHOR) Kirby, Emma-Jane
PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd	PUBLICATION DATE : May 04, 2017
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Penguin Books Ltd
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 125 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Society & Social Sciences

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