The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon

The Bone Sparrow
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Country
Australia
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
240
ISBN
9780734417138

The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon

Winner of The Readings Young Adult Prize 2017

Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour 2017

Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he has ever known. But as he grows, his imagination gets bigger too, until it is bursting at the limits of his world. The Night Sea brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories.

The most vivid story of all, however, is the one that arrives one night in the form of Jimmie, a scruffy, impatient girl who appears from the other side of the wires, and brings a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family’s love songs and tragedies.

Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way to freedom, as their tales unfold. But not until each of them has been braver than ever before.

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