在一个月光下的海滩上，一位父亲在等待黎明破裂和一艘船到达时，抱着他沉睡的儿子。 他和他的孩子谈到了他童年的漫长夏天，回忆起祖父在叙利亚的房子，微风中橄榄树的搅动，祖母山羊的咩咩声，以及她的烹饪锅的叮当声……
A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner, brought to life by Dan Williams’s beautiful illustrations On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive.
He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather’s house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother’s goat, the clanking of her cooking pots. And he remembers, too, the bustling city of Homs with its crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk, in the days before the sky spat bombs and they had to flee.
When the sun rises they and those around them will gather their possessions and embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a new home.
