It’s the day to announce forthcoming fall books. Khaled Hosseini’s SEA PRAYER, a short, illustrated book written “in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey,” will be published September 18 by Riverhead (and August 30 by Bloomsbury UK). London-based artist Dan Williams will illustrate. Deneen Howell at Williams & Connolly represented Hosseini in the deals. Sea Prayer was first released as a Guardian virtual film on September 1, 2017 in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency (and the text is posted here). […]
