01449nam a22002537a 4500 20250618164552.0 250617b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788198604187 Purchased Current Books,Convent Jn,Ernakulam English F DEL/SM Delecroix,Vincent SMALL BOAT 1 New Delhi Simon & Schuster 2025 122 November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen? 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 Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes. Fiction Helen Stevenson (tr.) LEN ddc ddc ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MAIN MAIN FIC 2025-06-17 Purchased 399.00 000154,2025/06/17 4 1 F DEL/SM E1101653 2026-08-17 17:31:10 2026-07-27 2025-06-17 LEN 195657 195657