Books about Water or Water Themes
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Book Title
The Optician of Lampedusa (2016)
Author
Emma-Jane Kirby
Description
The only optician on the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean is an
ordinary man in his fifties, who used to be indifferent to the fate of
the thousands of refugees landing on the coast of the Italian island.
One day in the fall of 2013, the unimaginable scale of the tragedy
became clear to him, and it changed him forever: as he was out boating
with some friends, he encountered hundreds of men, women and children
drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck
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