In the Sea There are Crocodiles

Informationen zum Autor Fabio Geda Klappentext Born in Turin in 1972, Fabio Geda is an Italian novelist who works with children in difficulties. He writes for several Italian magazines and newspapers, and teaches creative writing at the Italian school of storytelling, Scuola Holden, in Turin. This is his first book to be translated into English. Zusammenfassung My mother decided it was better to know I was in danger far from her; but on the way to a different future, than to know I was in danger near her; This is the heartbreaking, unforgettable story of his journey from Afghanistan to Italy in an attempt to find a safe place to live.

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A frank, revealing and clear-eyed testament of the experiences faced by a young asylum-seeker in the contemporary world Diane Samuels Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Fabio Geda, Geda Fabio
• Assisted by: Howard Curtis (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2012
• EAN: 9780099555452
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955545-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Afghanistan, Biography: general, Fiction in translation, c 2000 to c 2009, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, FICTION / World Literature / Italy, italy; afghanistan