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Morning Sea
Morning Sea | Margaret Mazzantini
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A mother s love knows no limits . . . Libya, 2010. As Gaddafi clings desperately to power, and chaos and violence flood the streets of Tripoli, Farid and his mother, Jamila, face two stark choices: flee to the border and risk capture by mercenaries, or trek to the coast and chance their luck on the hazardous crossing to Sicily. But hunkering down in a trafficker s battered old boat, the vastness of the Mediterranean and their journey begins to dawn. Sicily, 2010. Vito wanders the desolate beaches recalling his mother s stories of her idyllic childhood in Libya. Forced to leave the country years earlier, Angelina has never forgotten nor forgiven the forces that tore her from her childhood love, a young Arab boy whose fate was very different from her own. And as she yearns for her past life in Africa, Jamila dreams of building a future for herself and Farid in Europe. Moving back and forth between the continents, this deeply moving portrait focuses on two families and one stretch of water, and in terse, lyrical language, captures perfectly the dark, uncertain quality of our times. "
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cherryluvr
Morning Sea | Margaret Mazzantini
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Panpan

Quite an interesting book following the Mediterranean migrant crisis from colonialism to the present day. I read the English translation and the writing tended to be flowery when speaking on horrible circumstances. The book has numerous instances of Orientalist imagery too.

You could read novels written by survivors of the migrant crisis for a better picture. However, Mazzantini has an authorial right to be able to write this novel.
⭐2.75/5 ⭐

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heatherspoetlife
Morning Sea | Margaret Mazzantini
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This is about as close to an #artrelatedbook as I've read and don't appear to own any. It has a bit of a winding way of being about art and I didn't get the beauty of the way the stories intersect when I first read it. #seasonsreadings @RealLifeReading

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despa7709
Morning Sea | Margaret Mazzantini
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"Her life was here, between the Arch of Marcus Aurelius and the mulberry tree, beneath the night that touched the ground and burnt with the red of the desert and the jubilant moula-moula birds."

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