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the powerful new novel from Omar El Akkad, begins with a stark and disturbingly familiar image: “The child lies on the shore. All around him the beach is littered with the wreckage of the boat and the wreckage of its passengers. … Facedown, with his arms outstretched, the child appears from a distance as though playing at flight.” It is a scene with real-world resonance: a shipload of refugees washing up on the shores of a small, unnamed Mediterranean island, in the shadows of a luxury hotel, hundreds of people, children among them, paying with their lives for dreams of a better future