What Strange Paradise

What Strange ParadiseOmar El Akkad Paperback July 2021 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2021From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over filled, ill equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers:

the hardest things can also be the best ones

‘A dazzlingly epic and richly complex world of dragons

Because when you raise a girl who likes herself

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Amal’s own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades

and through it

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and to the man she thought she'd never have to live without

Izzy and Lucas begin to wonder if there's more at stake here than the hotel's future

- having body confidence

Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love