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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss,
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- ISBN
- 9781250106001
- Book Title
- Hope more Powerful than the Sea : One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Emigration & Immigration
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Urgently required reading. -- People Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative. -- The New Yorker Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope. -- Newsweek The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight--just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around--nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship bound for Sweden and a new life. For days, Doaa floats, prays, and sings to the babies in her arms. She must stay alive for these children. She must not lose hope. Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011, her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life. After Doaa's father's barbershop was destroyed and rumors of women being abducted spread through the community, her family decided to leave Syria for Egypt, where they hoped to stay in peace until they could return home. Only months after their arrival, the Egyptian government was overthrown and the environment turned hostile for refugees. In the midst of this chaos, Doaa falls in love with a young opposition fighter who proposes marriage and convinces her to flee to the promise of safety and a better future in Europe. Terrified and unable to swim, Doaa and her young fiance hand their life savings to smugglers and board a dilapidated fishing vessel with five hundred other refugees, including a hundred children. After four horrifying days at sea, another ship, filled with angry men shouting insults, rams into Doaa's boat, sinking it and leaving the passengers to drown. That is where Doaa's struggle for survival really begins. A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is an emotionally charged, eye-opening true story that represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for the promise of a safe future. Melissa Fleming sheds light on the most pressing humanitarian crisis of our time and paints a vivid, unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
ISBN-10
1250106001
ISBN-13
9781250106001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237472211
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hope more Powerful than the Sea : One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Emigration & Immigration
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
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Reviews
Urgently required reading. - People "Some books should be required reading. A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is one of those books."- Christian Science Monitor "Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." - The New Yorker
Table of Content
A Childhood in Syria The War Begins The Siege of Daraa Life as a Refugee Love in Exile The Engagement Deal with the Devil The Nightmare Begins All That Is Left Is the Sea Rescue at the Dying Hour Epilogue A Note from Doaa A Note on Sources Acknowledgments
Dewey Decimal
956.9104/231
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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