THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER `Devastating' Daily Telegraph `Heartbreaking' The Times `Unforgettable' Isabel Allende `Haunting' Independent Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new...
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER `Devastating' Daily Telegraph `Heartbreaking' The Times `Unforgettable' Isabel Allende `Haunting' Independent ...
A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short story for people of all ages from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner, brought to life by Dan Williams's beautiful illustrations'The book may be brief, but it is beautiful, poetic - a distillation of his strengths' Sunday Times On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather's house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his...
A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short story for people of all ages from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner, brought ...
Krátká, ale obsahově silná, ilustrovaná kniha napsaná oblíbeným spisovatelem Khaledem Hosseinim je reakcí na současnou uprchlickou krizi. Mořská modlitba je psaná ve formě dopisu otce synovi v předvečer jejich cesty. Otec pozoruje svého spícího syna a přemýšlí o nebezpečné cestě přes moře, která je čeká. Je to také živý portrét jejich života v Homsu v Sýrii před válkou a rychlé přeměny města z domova na smrtící válečnou zónu. Impulsem pro napsání knihy byla děsivá fotka Alana Kurdia, tříletého syrského chlapce, jehož tělo bylo na...
Krátká, ale obsahově silná, ilustrovaná kniha napsaná oblíbeným spisovatelem Khaledem Hosseinim je reakcí na současnou uprchlickou krizi. Mo...
Text in Arabic. A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that citys swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy...
Text in Arabic. A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer ...
