Author Signed Edition
1st Printing - 1st Edition Hardcover
Hand Signed by KHALED HOSSEINI
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer
is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the
eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father
reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also
a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of
that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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, and he will donate author proceeds from this book
to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation
to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the
globe.
Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read writers in
the world, with more than fifty-five million copies of his novels sold
worldwide in more than seventy countries. Hosseini is also a Goodwill
Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a
nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of
Afghanistan.