Sea Prayer

 
　　2015 年，3 歲的敘利亞小男孩艾蘭．庫迪隨家人一起搭船前往歐洲避難，所乘坐的船隻卻因超載翻覆，庫迪伏屍沙灘的照片震撼全球，而這也是胡賽尼寫下《Sea Prayer》的切入點。
          
　　《Sea Prayer》是一本簡短而有力的書，故事由父親寫給兒子的信所組成，內容描述在他們出逃前夕，父親看著兒子熟睡的臉龐以及面前茫茫無盡的大海，他感到害怕。選擇離開是危險的，很有可能親愛的其中一位家人——甚至是他們全部都會死，但留下來肯定沒有存活的希望，在沒有更好的選擇之下，他只能祈禱這片大海能夠保護孩子們的安全。
 
　　胡賽尼是全球銷售量最高的作家之一，他的作品在全球七十多個國家暢銷超過五千五百萬冊。胡賽尼以這本書向包含庫迪在內的數百萬難民家庭致敬，本書的作者收益也將捐給聯合國難民署以及 Khaled Hosseini 基金會，以協助救助全球難民。
 
　　「胡賽尼的寫作使我們心痛，令我們揪緊了胃，讓我們情緒緊繃……他在悲慘的故事中塑造出英雄角色，而他們的精神，緊攫住了黑暗中那一絲最黯淡的希望之光。」——USA Today（文 / 博客來編譯）


　　The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages, all over the world.

　　A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city’s swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
 
　　Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi’s, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe.
 
　　Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read writers in the world, with more than fifty-five million copies of his novels sold worldwide in more than seventy countries. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.