Omar El Akkad — What Strange Paradise
London, Picador, 2021. First edition. Cloth. A limited signed first UK edition of this moving novel by Omar El Akkad. One of 350 numbered and signed copies of the first UK edition, this copy being number 257. First impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This novel, from Canadian writer Omar El Akkad, follows Amir, a young survivor of a refugee ship, and Vanna, a native teenage girl he meets on a small Greek island. Winner of the 2021 Giller Prize, this powerful narrative looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, both cloth and wrapper are lovely, with minimal signs of shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Signed by the author to the limitation half title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
