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Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe (Paperback)
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Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe (Paperback)
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List price R310
Loot Price R277
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"Bartolo tells us about rescuing everyone he can, burying those he
cannot, and saving their stories as if they were his own. This is a
personal, urgent and universal book" GLORIA STEINEM "An urgent,
wrenching dispatch from the frontline of the defining crisis of our
times . . . Bartolo is at once the saviour and the coroner to
boatload after boatload of migrants who risk everything to cross
the deadly seas. It is also a damning indictment of the broader,
collective indifference of humankind to both the drowned and the
saved" PHILIP GOUREVITCH "Dr Pietro Bartolo has seen more suffering
and death in his career than any one man should have to witness"
Amnesty International "Through Bartolo we understand that it is
impossible to do nothing in the face of such great human need"
Vanity Fair It is common to think of the refugee crisis as a recent
phenomenon, but Dr Pietro Bartolo, who runs the clinic on the
Italian island of Lampedusa, has been caring for its victims - both
the living and the dead - for a quarter of a century. Situated some
200 km off Italy's Southern coast, Lampedusa has hit the world
headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of
thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants hoping to make a
new life in Europe. The shipwrecks began in 1992. Before the Arab
Spring, they came from Africa, but now they come from across the
Arab world as well. And the death toll is staggering. On Christmas
Eve, 1996, 286 bodies were recovered; on the night of October 3,
2003, 366 out of 500 migrants died after a shipwreck nearby. For
the past twenty-five years, Doctor Bartolo has been rescuing,
welcoming, helping, and providing medical assistance to those who
survived. But, above all, he has been listening to them. Tales of
pain and hope, stories of those who didn't make it, who died at
sea, their bodies washed up on shore; stories of those who lost
their loved ones, of babies that never had a chance to be born.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ITALIAN PROSE TRANSLATION AWARD (IPTA)
Translated from the Italian by Chenxin Jiang
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