In The Sea There Are Crocodiles. The Story Of Enaiatollah Akbari

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 210 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. One Night As His Mother Was Putting Him To Bed, Enaiatollah A Ten Year Old Was Told' Don't Use Drugs, Don't Use Weapons, And Don't Steal.' Next Morning She Was Gone. He Then Took A 5 Year Journey From Afghanistan To Italy To A Place He Could Call Home.

Publishers Description: One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollahs mother tells him three things: dont use drugs, dont use weapons, and dont steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isnt there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself. In a book that takes a true story and shapes it into a beautiful piece of fiction, Italian novelist Fabio Geda describes Enaiatollahs remarkable five-year journey from Afghanistan to Italy where he finally managed to claim political asylum aged fifteen. His ordeal took him through Iran, Turkey and Greece, working on building sites in order to pay people-traffickers, and enduring the physical misery of dangerous border crossings squeezed into the false bottoms of lorries or trekking across inhospitable mountains. A series of almost implausible strokes of fortune enabled him to get to Turin, find help from an Italian family and meet Fabio Geda, with whom he became friends. The result of their friendship is this unique book in which Enaiatollahs engaging, moving voice is brilliantly captured by Gedas subtly simple storytelling. In Gedas hands, Enaiatollahs journey becomes a universal story of stoicism in the face of fear, and the search for a place where life is liveable.

ISBN: 9780857560087