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. Proceeds from the sale of Sea Prayer will go to The Khaled Hosseini Foundation and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency to help fund life-saving support and build better futures for refugees around the world.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. When the sun rises they and those around them will gather their possessions and embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a new home.
And he remembers, too, the bustling city of Homs with its crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk, in the days before the sky spat bombs and they had to flee. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather's house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother's goat, the clanking of her cooking pots. On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. 'The book may be brief, but it is beautiful, poetic – a distillation of his strengths' Sunday Times A Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellerĪ deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short story for people of all ages from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner, brought to life by Dan Williams's beautiful illustrations
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