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The boy on the beach : my family's escape from Syria and our hope for a new home / Tima Kurdi.

by Kurdi, Tima, author.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Kurdî, Alan, 2012-2015 -- Family.

Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.

Syrians -- Canada -- Biography.

Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Refugees.

9781982108519 (hardback) :

1982108517 (hardback)

xxvii, 241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Simon & Schuster export edition.

The City of Jasmine -- Homesick -- You are my life -- Ghalib -- Tough as a wolf -- Alan -- This is what the war has done to us -- God willing, it will get easier -- One foot forward and one backward -- God rest them in peace -- Nobody gets flowers by planting thorns -- In the blink of an eye -- They are like birds now -- Trees often transplanted never prosper -- Epilogue: Jasmine-scented air.

"An intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdi--the young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plight of millions of Syrian refugees--and of the many extraordinary journeys the Kurdis have taken, spanning countries and continents. Alan Kurdi's body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2, 2015, and overnight, the political became personal, as the world awoke to the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tima Kurdi first saw the shocking photo of her nephew in her home in Vancouver, Canada. But Tima did not need a photo to understand the truth--she and her family had already been living it. In The Boy on the Beach, Tima recounts her idyllic childhood in Syria, where she grew up with her brother Abdullah and other siblings in a tight-knit family. A strong-willed, independent woman, Tima studied to be a hairdresser and had dreams of seeing the world. At twenty-two, she emigrated to Canada, but much of her family remained in Damascus. Life as a single mother and immigrant in a new country wasn't always easy, and Tima recounts with heart-wrenching honesty the anguish of being torn between a new home and the world she'd left behind. As Tima struggled to adapt to life in a new land, war overtook her homeland. Caught in the crosshairs of civil war, her family risked everything and fled their homes. Tima worked tirelessly to help them find safety, but their journey was far from easy. Although thwarted by politics, hounded by violence, and separated by vast distances, the Kurdis encountered setbacks at every turn, they never gave up hope. And when tragedy struck, Tima suddenly found herself thrust onto the world stage as an advocate for refugees everywhere, a role for which she had never prepared but that allowed her to give voice to those who didn't have an opportunity to speak for themselves. From the jasmine-scented neighbourhoods of Damascus before the war to the streets of Aleppo during it, to the refugee camps of Europe and the leafy suburbs of Vancouver, The Boy on the Beach is one family's story of love, loss, and the persistent search for safe harbour in a devastating time of war."--Amazon.com.

Two-year-old Alan Kurdi's body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2, 2015, and overnight the world awoke to the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tima Kurdi saw the shocking photo of her nephew in her home in Vancouver, Canada. Now she recounts her idyllic childhood in Syria, where she grew up with her brother Abdullah and other siblings in a tight-knit family. She emigrated to Canada, but much of her family remained in Damascus as war overtook her homeland. Their journey to safety was thwarted by politics, hounded by violence, and when tragedy struck, Tima suddenly found herself giving voice to those who didn't have an opportunity to speak for themselves. -- adapted from amazon.com info

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