Butterfly
«Yusra, we could not be prouder of you for your courage and your resilience and the great example that you're setting for children everywhere.»
<b>President Barack Obama</b>
Soon to be a major motion picture, The Swimmers will be released on Netflix in 2022
'An extraordinary tale of bravery, survival, and winsome, never-give-up moxie. It is impossible not to be won over by Yusra.
Les mer
'An extraordinary tale of bravery, survival, and winsome, never-give-up moxie. It is impossible not to be won over by Yusra.' - Khaled Hosseini
Being a refugee is not a choice. Our choice is to die at home or risk death trying to escape.
When war broke out in her native Syria, Yusra Mardini fled to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it began to sink. Instinctively, Yusra and her sister took to the treacherous open water and pushed the boat for three and half hours, helped by two other refugees, until they eventually landed on Lesbos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard.
Butterfly is the story of that remarkable woman, whose journey started in a war-torn suburb of Damascus and took her through Europe to Berlin and from there to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.
Yusra Mardini is an athlete, one of People magazine's twenty-five women changing the world, on the list of TIME Magazine's most influential teens, and one of the the youngest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors. A major Netflix film adaptation of her life story will be released in 2022, written by Jack Thorne.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bluebird
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781509881697
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Yusra, we could not be prouder of you for your courage and your resilience and the great example that you're setting for children everywhere.»
<b>President Barack Obama</b>
«Yusra has an incredible story.»
<b>Emma Watson</b>
«War, for all its atrocities, is punctuated by instances of unfathomable human spirit and grace. Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini’s story is a prime example. Butterfly recounts this Syrian refugee’s extraordinary tale of bravery, survival, and winsome, never-give-up moxie. It is impossible not to be won over by Yusra.»
<b>Khaled Hosseini</b>
«Yusra Mardini is a compact powerhouse of inspiration and determination. I am spellbound by her story of bravery and her incredible sister, Sara. What amazing young women, who illustrate to all of us that refugees are people with dreams and ambitions.»
<b>Cate Blanchett</b>
«Yusra reminds us of the human cost of the tragedy and the incredible fortitude, perseverance and hope of one young woman who struggles for a future»
<b>Stephen Daldry, Director of <i>Billy Elliot, The Reader </i>and <i>The Hours</i></b>
«An honest account that underlines the human cost of the refugee crisis.»
<b><i>Stylist Loves</i></b>
«Inspirational and humbling.»
<b><i>Sunday Post</i></b>
«You should know the name Yusra Mardini.»
<b><i>Huffington Post</i></b>