Description
From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about the awakening of human courage and conscience. 'I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that terrible noise. I hardly want to. You won't understand because you weren't there. You can't understand. You see, I thought I'd heard seagulls screeching. Seagulls fighting over a lucky catch. Birds. Just birds.' Emma-Jane Kirby has reported extensively on the reality of mass migration today. In The Optician of Lampedusa she brings to life the moving testimony of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission.
Review:
Deeply moving... this is a tale of transformation, of a man just like you and me. Journal du Dimanche A heartfelt story ... at once horrifying and comforting Le Soir A book that can be devoured as if it were a novel, but in which everything is true. Le Parisien A shock to the system, it forces us to think... the optician is an ordinary man, no better no worse than us. France 2
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