NEW YORK TIMES bestseller An illustrated book on the refugee crisis that will break your heart
in under 48 pages from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner A Thousand
Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed. "Intensely moving. . .Powerfully evocative of the
plight in which displaced populations find themselves."- Kirkus STARRED Review "Hosseini's
story aimed at readers of all ages does not dwell on nightmarish fates instead its
emotional power flows from the love of a father for his son."- Publishers Weekly STARRED BOX
Review A short powerful illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in
response to the current refugee crisis Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter from a
father to his son on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son the father
reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of
their life in Homs Syria before the war and of that city's swift transformation from a home
into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan
Kurdi the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September
2015 Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families like Kurdi's who have been
splintered and forced from home by war and persecution and he will donate author proceeds from
this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund
lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe. Khaled Hosseini is one of the
most widely read writers in the world with more than fifty-five million copies of his novels
sold worldwide in more than seventy countries. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR
and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation a nonprofit that provides humanitarian
assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
