Sea Prayer by Khalid Hosseini
Sea Prayer by Khalid Hosseini
Reviewed by Ali
Mahar
This is a long poem which depicts emotions of
a refugee father during his journey in search of Home. Father speak with his
innocent son and and tells him the stories of his boyhood that how he and his
uncle had enjoyed their childhood and feels sorry for him and his family which
only observe skies spitting bombs, starvation and Burials.
Poem moves very
fast, take refugees to sea which is ready to drown them alive. When Father is
helpless he says to his son "all I can do is pray." These lines are
most powerful lines in the poem.
Writer was inspired
by the story of Alan Kurdi the three year old Syrian refugee who drowned in sea
trying to reach home safely in Europe in September 2015.
Book is dedicated to
the thousands of refugees who have perished at sea feeling war and persecution.
Although book is not
as good as I was expecting but book made me think about refugees and their
starving lives.
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