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I recommend everyone to read this book, it's truly heart warming and equally infuriating how little is being done by governments across the world to support refugees
A book which Fraillon states that she wished she did not have to write but to ignore it was to ignore a whole people. A dual narrative from two children who both have suffered the loss of a parents, The Bone Sparrow does not pull its punches...and, perhaps, justly so if her aim to highlight the atrocities of the treatment of asylum seekers in her home country of Australia.
Subhi tries his best to see life within the camp in a positive light but there comes a point when the horror can become too much and yet, even then, he remains stronger and braver than the rest of us. As I was reading, I saw a lot of parallels to Boyne's Striped Pyjamas but am happy to say that, personally, I much preferred the ending to this story.
Subhi tries his best to see life within the camp in a positive light but there comes a point when the horror can become too much and yet, even then, he remains stronger and braver than the rest of us. As I was reading, I saw a lot of parallels to Boyne's Striped Pyjamas but am happy to say that, personally, I much preferred the ending to this story.
"There are some people in this world who can see all the hidden bits and pieces of the universe."
This story is beautiful, eye opening, horrifically tragic and yet filled right up with hope.
The Bone Sparrow is not the first book I have read about refugees, but it is definitely much more impacting and candid than any I've read before.
Since this book is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal this year, I went into this book with high expectations. Usually, that means I'm going to be horribly disappointed. Definitely not the case with this book - it was so much more than I could have imagined.
Subhi's voice is loud and clear throughout this book, as if he is speaking directly to you. You're seeing things that no person should ever have to deal with - and you're being shown them by a child.
This book is important, and needed. The fearless, truthful storytelling shows the way of the world today - and it's shocking. We are clearly shown the way that people, although being good and kind and nice people, would rather turn away than deal with a problem, or try to help someone. This book has made me think very very hard about exactly what I am doing with myself, and has made me realise how much I take for granted, every single day. I urge everyone and anyone to read this book - it is important.
This story is beautiful, eye opening, horrifically tragic and yet filled right up with hope.
The Bone Sparrow is not the first book I have read about refugees, but it is definitely much more impacting and candid than any I've read before.
Since this book is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal this year, I went into this book with high expectations. Usually, that means I'm going to be horribly disappointed. Definitely not the case with this book - it was so much more than I could have imagined.
Subhi's voice is loud and clear throughout this book, as if he is speaking directly to you. You're seeing things that no person should ever have to deal with - and you're being shown them by a child.
This book is important, and needed. The fearless, truthful storytelling shows the way of the world today - and it's shocking. We are clearly shown the way that people, although being good and kind and nice people, would rather turn away than deal with a problem, or try to help someone. This book has made me think very very hard about exactly what I am doing with myself, and has made me realise how much I take for granted, every single day. I urge everyone and anyone to read this book - it is important.
Heartbreaking, beautiful story that deserves to be read by everyone who claims to care about refugees as people.
Subhi's voice as the narrator is captivatingly childlike and realistic. The way he views his world...it just makes me want to hold him tight and shield him from all the evil in the world and give him all the good that life has to offer and tell him never to change. I love Subhi.
This book makes you feel and it makes you want to do something, to change things.
Subhi's voice as the narrator is captivatingly childlike and realistic. The way he views his world...it just makes me want to hold him tight and shield him from all the evil in the world and give him all the good that life has to offer and tell him never to change. I love Subhi.
This book makes you feel and it makes you want to do something, to change things.
"I need these stories. Everyone else here has memories to hold on to. Everyone else has things to think on to stop them getting squashed down to nothing. But I don't have memories of anywhere else, and all these days just squish into the same. I need their stories. I need them to make my memories...It doesn't matter that the scraps of memories just get put on scraps of paper to match. Every little scrap joins up to every other little scrap. Every time they tell a story, those words make those joinings-up bigger and louder and stronger, so that soon everyone will see and hear the way the whole world is joined up together by millions of tiny scraps. One day everything will be covered in one gigantic blanket big enough to warm everyone. A blanket full of every story there ever was, and strong enough for every single person to hear."
I may or may not have cried all the way through the ending. Please read this. It's such a wonderful story filled with the realities of the world
The story of Subhi, a Rohingya boy born in an Australian immigration detention centre, Subhi knows no other life apart from the stories that his mother has told him.
Frallion’s writing is tight and travels between the mystical land inhabited by Subhi’s imagination and the brutality of the life in an immigration centre.
The friendships Subhi makes with Jimmie, a girl living locally, but I suspect with Aboriginal ancestry, lighten the brutality of his daily life but also serves to highlight the hardships faced by both of the children in their daily lives.
This book is going to be the core of my International Refugee Day display and week at work, as I feel that it is sympathetic without dismissing the troubles and hardships that are in the refugee system, especially for children.
Frallion’s writing is tight and travels between the mystical land inhabited by Subhi’s imagination and the brutality of the life in an immigration centre.
The friendships Subhi makes with Jimmie, a girl living locally, but I suspect with Aboriginal ancestry, lighten the brutality of his daily life but also serves to highlight the hardships faced by both of the children in their daily lives.
This book is going to be the core of my International Refugee Day display and week at work, as I feel that it is sympathetic without dismissing the troubles and hardships that are in the refugee system, especially for children.