![]() ![]() ![]() The father and his family are now preparing for a passage and Hosseini writes of the emotions the night before the dangerous journey. Against a stark white background, Williams then helps to transition the book from its opening passage to the sea prayer itself, showing a long line of refugees walking. Pages later, this is transformed into deep slate grays, browns and black. A lush palette of greens and warm reds and yellows show trees, flowers, a busy market. Hosseini’s words are confronting and devastating the contrast is made all the more moving by Dan Williams vivid watercolor illustrations. Sea Prayer Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury, August 2018 Riverhead, September 2018) You have learned dark blood is better news than bright. You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. Hosseini begins by contrasting the narrator-father’s peaceful childhood in Homs, with the war zone that his son now experiences: ![]() ![]() In his first illustrated book, the best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns has written a sparse yet powerful story. Khaled Hosseini’s Sea Prayer is a poetic and deeply moving letter from a father to his son, a response to the death of three year old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, who drowned during his family’s attempt to reach Europe in 2015. My dear Marwan, in the long summers of childhood, when I was a boy the age you are now, your uncles and I spread our mattress on the roof of your grandfather’s farmhouse outside of Homs. ![]()
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