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The Optician of Lampedusa (Paperback)
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The Optician of Lampedusa (Paperback)
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List price R326
Loot Price R294
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'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times '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 Times 'An
important book ... I cried all the way through' Tracy Chevalier
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. '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.' 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.
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