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Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix

3.82/5 (238 ratings)

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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 160 pages

Publication:: 2025

Publisher:: HopeRoad

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1913109372

ISBN13:: 9781913109370

kindle Asin:: B0DYF8MJJN

Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix

3.82/5 (238 ratings)

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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 160 pages

Publication:: 2025

Publisher:: HopeRoad

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1913109372

ISBN13:: 9781913109370

kindle Asin:: B0DYF8MJJN

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