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Small Boat

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ISBN:  9781913109370
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Descriere

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died.

The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies?

A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.

Detalii

Editura: HopeRoad
An apariție: 2025
Nr. pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 20 x 13 cm

Recenzii

“Delecroix’s powerful and timely meditation on this disturbing rhetoric is a damning indictment of apathy in the face of calamity” Financial Times

“Vividly translated by Helen Stevenson, and currently on the shortlist for this year’s International Booker prize, Small Boat is painful, compelling and mercifully short, with a powerful undertow.” Times Literary Supplement

“A vital and powerful novel that speaks to the core of our humanity. A parable for our time.” Amanda Smyth

“Shattering and unflinching. This is the most important novel you will read this year.” Lucy Rose, Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Lamb

“As icy as the waters of the Channel on a November night.” La Voix du Nord

“The narrator accuses those who judge her of hypocrisy and will only see herself as a cog in the administrative wheel of a France that will not give refuge to the world’s misery. As strong and cruel as the times we live in.” Paris Match

“The metaphor of drowning reminds us of the extreme indifference which allows all of us to keep our head above water whilst others drown. The drowning in question is not that of twenty-seven lives but of humanity itself.” Page des libraires

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