215 pages
English language
Published May 31, 2011 by Doubleday.
In the sea there are crocodiles
based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari : a novel Listen Alaska
by Fabio Geda
4 stars
(1 review)
An unflinching, inspirational, and incredibly moving novel based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, a young boy whose agonizing struggle begins after his native Afghanistan becomes a dangerous place to live. His mother shepherds him across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there to fend for himself.
Subjects
- Afghans
- Travel
- Abandoned children
- Political refugees
- Human smuggling
- Fiction
- Boys
- FICTION
- General
- Childhood and youth
- Immigrants
- History
Places
- Pakistan
- Italy
- Afghanistan