Sea Prayer -Khaled Hosseini
“My dear Martin, in the long summer of childhood,
when I was a boy the age you are now, your uncles and I spread our mattress on
the roof of your grandfather’s farmhouse outside of Homs.”
―
Sea Prayer is about the plight of a refugee family
seeking refuge and is left to fend on the mercy of sea and gods for survival. This
is a beautifully written book and the illustrations are exemplary and increases
the reading experience. Sea Prayer is about everything that can go wrong in
society. How millions suffer because of the chosen few. Sea Prayer tells us how
humanity and human existence is going to cease because of our sheer
foolishness. The ordeal of millions is a pleasure of few. The fight for Religious
and Racial supremacy is leading us all towards an infinite abyss. The war for
territorial gain and natural resources have left the citizen broken bleeding
and empty handed without an iota of mercy is saddening. Khaled Hosseini is a
mastery story teller when it comes to migration and its pain. His verses
describe the pain of a father beautifully where he is uncertain of the future
ahead yet he assures and entrust his son of the better days ahead. Though the
book tells us about the Syrian refuge but half of Middle East and Africa is
under civil war.
Impelled to write this story by the haunting image
of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the
beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the
millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from
home by war and persecution.
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