RECENSIONE #74/2020 A Book Reader's Journey (English Edition) by Omaid Ahmadzai Venduto da: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.

                                                                               A Book Reader's Journey

by Omaid Ahmadzai

Venduto da: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.

Lingua: Inglese

Il libro

Arman is a young orphan living in the middle of war-torn Kabul. He is ill-treated by the family he lives with, but finds solace in his best friend Jamal and his love of reading. After a tragic occurrence, he is forced to leave Kabul and make an extraordinary journey over land and water in an attempt to reach the safety of London. With Jamal and his two brothers, Zain and Wali, he encounters pain, love and significant danger as he moves from country to country. Through his reading and his many encounters along the way, he learns to live with the past, the present and the future, as well as the biggest tragedy of all; the loss of a loved one.
A Book Reader's Journey is a story of love, hate, friendship and, most of all, hope, that will take you through towns, cities and countries by Arman’s side as he battles to overcome social, mental and physical hardships on his road to self-discovery and safety.

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Set in difficult Kabul. A story that blends the individual dimension with the social 

one for an emblematic story on the desire for redemption. In Kabul, a degraded city, the only 

way to defend yourself from the ferocity of the neighborhood it is the family, but families are 

known to be unhappy by definition and so Arman's is no exception.

On this precarious balance he finds comfort in his best friend Jamal and in his love of reading. 

The boy thus becomes a sort of Oliver Twist, who fights against the mad law that, in the name 

of rights, cuts off ties and separates people dearest loved ones.

In his war for survival and to carve out his place in the world, he is forced leave Kabul and travel 

to unknown lands and waters, like a young man Ulysses, in an attempt to reach London, but the 

protagonist, however, will not be able against the extreme consequences of an adverse destiny, 

he meets pain, love and danger while moving from one country to another, together with Jamal 

and his brothers Zain and Wali.

He will learn at his own expense that there is only one poison against death  and it is love. 

A happy debut that of the author Omaid Ahmadzai. A Book Reader's Journey, is an incisive 

and vibrant novel about the strength of deep bonds, which sees young Arman grappling with the 

sufferings of life. An exciting story about what it means to become an adult freeing oneself from 

the passion for life and nailing on the page the unbridgeable distance that  separates the popular 

neighborhoods of a Kabul tormented by misery, from the bourgeois salons also thanks to the 

saving power of books.