The Reading Frenzy: Davide Enia

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

#GIVEAWAY Showcase - Notes on a Shipwreck by Davide Enia

Refugees fleeing a home that's no longer safe and heading for an unknown boarder they hope will be, these crossings are too often featured in the headlines and too often end in tragedies. Davide Enia gives a moving personal account of just such a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, an island in the south of Italy. My copy of this highly acclaimed memoir is high on my tbr pile and one of my US readers can win one too. Deets below
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ISBN-13: 978-1590519080
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 2-19-2019
Length: 256pp
Buy It: Amazon/B&N/Kobo/IndieBound/Audible

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Overview:

A moving firsthand account of migrant landings on the island of Lampedusa that gives voice to refugees, locals, and volunteers while also exploring a deeply personal father–son relationship.

On the island of Lampedusa, in the southernmost part of Italy, between Africa and Europe, Davide Enia looks in the faces of those who arrive and those who wait, and tells the story of an individual and collective shipwreck. On one side, a multitude in motion, crossing entire nations and then the Mediterranean Sea under conditions beyond any imagination. On the other, a handful of men and women on the border of an era and a continent, trying to welcome the newcomers. In the middle is the author himself, telling of what actually happens at sea and on land, and his desperate attempt to make sense of it all.

Enia reveals the emotional consequences of this touching and disconcerting reality, especially in his relationship with his father, a recently retired doctor who agrees to travel with him to Lampedusa. Witnessing together the public pain of those who land and those who save them from death, alongside the private pain of his uncle’s illness, pushes them to reinvent their relationship, to forge a new and unprecedented dialogue that replaces the silences of the past.