The Mediterranean Wall

In this deeply hopeful and viscerally detailed novel, award-winning Haitian author Louis-Philippe Dalembert (The Other Side of the Sea) has provided a Tolstoyan narrative of the contemporary immigrants' exodus from war, famine, poverty, criminality and injustice to a better life across the Mediterranean Sea. Following in intimate detail the lives of three women from disparate religions and cultures, and nations--Nigeria, Eritrea, and Syria--Dalembert compassionately depicts these three women and the bond they form together in their mutual struggle to escape to Europe via an overcrowded, dilapidated boat across the sea, the metaphorical wall between their former lives and the future. Certain to appeal to readers of literature of migration and such recent fiction as "Behold the Dreamers" and "The Lost Children Archive."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Schaffner Press
Published: 06/15/2021
ISBN: 9781943156962
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.34w x 1.15d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/14/2021 pg. 1