In the Sea There Are Crocodiles

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It’s sobering and heart lifting to see the stoical determination and achievement of someone who makes our world look like paradise. Anyway, even when your mother says things like that and then, still stroking your neck, looks up at the window and starts talking about dreams, dreams like the moon, which at night is so bright you can see to eat by it, and about wishes—how you must always have a wish in front of your eyes, like a donkey with a carrot, and how it’s in trying to satisfy our wishes that we find the strength to pick ourselves up, and if you hold a wish up high, any wish, just in front of your forehead, then life will always be worth living—well, even when your mother, as she helps you get to sleep, says all these things in a strange, low voice as warming as embers, and fills the silence with words, this woman who’s always been so sharp, so quick- witted in dealing with life. This book will break your heart at the same time that it is lifting your spirit and opening your understanding to a very different kind of life in our very same world.

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I asked about my mother, if by any chance he’d seen her go out, because nobody went in or out without him noticing, right? So I got out from under the covers, put my shoes on, rubbed my eyes and went to find the owner of the place to ask if he’d seen her, because three days earlier, as soon as we arrived, he’d told us that no one went in or out without him noticing, which seemed odd to me, since I assumed that even he needed to sleep from time to time.

When I opened my eyes in the morning, I had a good stretch to wake myself up, then reached over to my right, feeling for the comforting presence of my mother’s body. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles will make you laugh and cry, and it will also make you a better person. I thought the sound of Pakistan was simply different from the sound of Afghanistan, and that every country had its own sound, which depended on a whole lot of things, like what people ate and how they moved around. Covering my eyes with my hand because of the light, I walked up to the owner, kaka Rahim, and apologized for bothering him. A riveting and fast read, one that dips into emotional and physical violence but surfaces in a splash of redemption and humanity and hope.

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His first novel, Per il resto del viaggio ho sparato agli indiani, was published in 2007 in Italy, France and Romania, and won the Best Debut Award for Literary Via Po Torino. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat’s engaging voice and humor, in what is a truly epic story of hope and survival, for readers of all ages. A company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (03139939) and a charity registered in England and Wales (1051681) and Scotland (SC039534). Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. In recounting the story of Akbari’s remarkable five year journey to safety, Geda gives voice to someone whose moving and salutary story could well have gone untold and unnoticed.An unflinching, inspirational, and incredibly moving novel based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, a young boy whose agonizing struggle begins after his native Afghanistan becomes a dangerous place to live. It is based on his relationship with Enaiatollah Akbari, whom he looked after upon the young boy’s arrival in Turin. We had been in the samavat for three days, never going out, me playing among the cushions, Mother talking to groups of women with children, some with whole families, people she seemed to trust. His translation of the final book in this trilogy, Solea, was shortlisted for the French-American and Florence Gould Translation Prize in 2008. The map in the book shows the route of his journey – through Iran, Turkey and Greece before finding a safe haven in Italy – and the text tells of the setbacks, cruelty and also kindness he encounters.