The Optician of Lampedusa: A Novella Based on a True Story by Emma-Jane Kirby

The Optician of Lampedusa: A Novella Based on a True Story

Emma-Jane Kirby

200 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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The only optician on the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean is an ordinary man in his fifties, who used to be indifferent to the fate of the thousands of refugees landing on the coast of the Italian island. One day in the fall of 2013, the u...

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