The Optician of Lampedusa

Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing'' The Timesbr>br>''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 Timesbr>br>''An important book ... I cried all the way through'' Tracy Chevalierbr>br>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.br>br>''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.''br>br>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

• Authors: Emma Jane Kirby, Emma-Jane Kirby
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9780141985220
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198522-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Italy, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, sea; schindler's list; refugee; bookseller of kabul, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples