Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780525539094
- ISBN-10: 0525539093
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publish Date: September 2018
- Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 48
- Reading Level: Ages 7-UP
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