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In the Sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda (Paperback, 2012)
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Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone at the border of Pakistan to fend for himself. Author:Geda, Fabio. In the Sea there are Crocodiles. Prizes:Short-listed for Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation 2015 Short-listed for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards: What's the Story Category 2013.
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One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah s mother tells him three things- don t use drugs, don t use weapons, don t steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn t 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 Enaiatollah s 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 Enaiatollah s engaging, moving voice is brilliantly captured by Geda s subtly simple storytelling. In Geda s hands, Enaiatollah s journey becomes a universal story of stoicism in the face of fear, and tProduct Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Random House Children's UK
ISBN-139781849920988
eBay Product ID (ePID)114439013
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Publication Year2012
Book TitleIn the Sea there Are Crocodiles
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren & Young Adults
AuthorFabio Geda
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height199 mm
Item Weight167 g
Item Width130 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorFabio Geda
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