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Small Boat: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
Vincent Delecroix Price: LE 1200
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| 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? |
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Language: English Paperback: 384 pages ISBN-10: 9781913109370 ISBN-13: 9781913109370
Genre: Popular Fiction Size: 10.4 cm x 16.5 cm Shipping Weight: 40 grams Condition: New
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