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Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe (Hardcover)
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Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe (Hardcover)
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The essential testimony of an Italian doctor who has worked for
twenty-five years on the front line of perhaps the largest mass
migration in human history. "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, 2013, 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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