Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing The TimesThe raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told Fiona Wilson, The TimesAn important book ... I cried all the way through Tracy ChevalierFrom an awardwinning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship and the awakening of courage and conscience.I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that terrible noise. I hardly want to. You wont understand because you werent there. You cant understand. You see, I thought Id heard seagulls screeching. Seagulls fighting over a lucky catch. Birds. Just birds.EmmaJane Kirby has reported extensively on the reality of mass migration today. In The Optician of Lampedusa she brings to life the moving testimony of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission.

Binding: Paperback;128 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: BTP; Weight: 238 g; Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 10

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