Sea Prayer

Khaled Hosseinis "Sea Prayer" er en smuk, barsk og rørende fortælling baseret på flygtningekrisen og det hjerteskærende pressefoto af 3-årige Alan Kurdi, den lille syriske dreng, hvis lig skyllede i land på en strand i Tyrkiet i 2015. Derfor donerer Hosseini romanens overskud til FN's Flygtningehøjkommissariat for aktivt at hjælpe flygtningefamilier. "Sea Prayer" er et kort portræt af en familie i midten af en krigszone, af Syriens voldsomme forandring og af en far og søn på nippet til at drage ud på en farlig rejse over havet i håbet om at få asyl. Fortællingen er skrevet af en af det 21. århundredes største forfattere, den afghanske Khaled Hosseini, der står bag moderne klassikere såsom "The Kite Runner" og "A Thousand Splendid Suns".

Khaled Hosseinis "Sea Prayer" er en smuk, barsk og rørende fortælling baseret på flygtningekrisen og det hjerteskærende pressefoto af 3-årige Alan Kurdi, den lille syriske dreng, hvis lig skyllede i land på en strand i Tyrkiet i 2015. Derfor donerer Hosseini romanens overskud til FN's Flygtningehøjkommissariat for aktivt at hjælpe flygtningefamilier. "Sea Prayer" er et kort portræt af en familie i midten af en krigszone, af Syriens voldsomme forandring og af en far og søn på nippet til at drage ud på en farlig rejse over havet i håbet om at få asyl. Fortællingen er skrevet af en af det 21. århundredes største forfattere, den afghanske Khaled Hosseini, der står bag moderne klassikere såsom "The Kite Runner" og "A Thousand Splendid Suns".

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller An illustrated book on the refugee crisis that will break your heart in under 48 pages, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. "Intensely moving. . .Powerfully evocative of the plight in which displaced populations find themselves."- Kirkus, STARRED Review "Hosseini's story, aimed at readers of all ages, does not dwell on nightmarish fates; instead, its emotional power flows from the love of a father for his son."- Publishers Weekly, STARRED BOX Review 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 upon 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.