And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vanna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Tareq Hadhad championed What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad on Canada Reads 2022.Ĭanada Reads took place March 28-31, 2022 The debates were hosted by Ali Hassan and broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books.
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