In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: A Novel

In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: A Novel

<p>What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?<br> <br>In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari's village fell prey to the Taliban. His mother, fearing for his life, led him across the border. So began Enaiat's remarkable and often publishing five-year ordeal-trekking across bitterly cold mountains, riding the suffocating false bottom of a truck, steering an inflatable raft in violent waters-through Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Greece, before he eventually sought political asylum in Italy, all before he turned fifteen years old.<br> <br>Here Fabio Geda delivers the moving true story of Enaiat's extraordinary will to survive and of the accidental brotherhood he found with the boys he met along the way. <i>In the Sea There Are Crocodiles</i> brilliantly captures Enaiat's engaging voice and humor, in what is a truly epic story of hope and survival, for readers of all ages.</p>