Small Boat: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi the Why of Writing

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Small Boat: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi the Why of WritingIn November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroixs fictional