What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad After clashing with a powerful

After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard

Joseph Boyden tracks his characters with a keen eye for the telling detail and a rare empathy for the empty places concealed within the heart

Every summer

it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them

Spanning from the 1860s to the present day

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad After clashing with a powerful*Used like new Published by McClelland & Stewart 2022 More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine year old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by