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Optician of Lampedusa
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Emma-Jane Kirby is a broadcast journalist who has reported extensively on international affairs, from Brussels to Afghanistan. She won the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents for her report 'The Optician of Lampedusa', on which this book is based.
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Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing . . . a moving and unusual achievement -- Fiona Wilson * The Times * An important book. . . I cried all the way through -- Tracy Chevalier An ambitious and important book that goes far beyond the voyeurism of 24-hour news to identify something timeless and troubling... a moral tale, following events through the eyes of the fastidiously ordinary optician never named in the text and thereby transformed into an everyman . . . Emma Jane Kirby challenges us to do more than cry. -- Peter Stanford * Observer * A novelistic retelling of a man's tragic encounter with the European migrant crisis - a true story that brings a fresh perspective to events that are often hard to visualise. -- Melissa Lawford * Financial Times * An eloquent, extraordinary story for our times * Tablet, Book of the Year * A moving insight * Financial Times, Book of the Year * A book that can be devoured as if it were a novel, but in which everything is true. * Le Parisien * A heartfelt story . . . at once horrifying and comforting * Le Soir * Deeply moving. . . this is a tale of transformation, of a man just like you and me. * Journal du Dimanche * With skill and composure that marks it as a work of literature rather than a journalistic report, Emma-Jane Kirby explores closely the innermost upheaval of one human being faced with the tragedy of another: the cause of such suffering is born of guilt, but also of a sense of humanity born of uncontrollable empathy. * La Croix * A shock to the system, it forces us to think. . . the optician is an ordinary man, no better no worse than us. * France 2 *
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- PublisherALLEN LANE
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0241295289
- ISBN 13 9780241295281
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages117
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