In the Sea There are Crocodiles

　　★義大利年度暢銷書，真實事件改編，小男孩的追尋自由之旅！

　　小男孩Enaiatollah跟著母親來到阿富汗境外的加茲尼尋求庇護。某天一覺醒來，母親已不告而別，將十歲的他獨自遺留在巴基斯坦……。

　　本書為義大利小說家Fabio Geda根據真實故事改編，描寫男孩Enaiatollah用五年的時間從阿富汗到義大利尋求政治庇護的崎嶇旅程。他穿越伊朗、土耳其與希臘等國家，靠著打些工地零工支付交通費。有時必須咬牙蜷縮在貨車底部，甚至隻身徒步跨越荒涼的山區來穿越邊境。最後他來到都靈，遇到願意援助他的好心人家，同時也認識了作者Fabio Geda。

　　Geda精準地描寫出一個被迫提早獨立的孩子如何在槍口下、流離中奮勇求生的經過。儘管現實的殘酷總是教人不忍直視，但Enaiatollah的旅程像是為我們開了一扇窗，帶我們領略世界另一塊土地上的真實人生。(文/博客來編譯)

　　One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. They have fled their village in Ghazni to seek safety outside Afghanistan but his mother has decided to return home to her younger children. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself.

　　In a book based on a true story, Italian novelist Fabio Geda describes Enaiatollah's remarkable five-year journey from Afghanistan to Italy where he finally managed to claim political asylum. His ordeal took him through Iran, Turkey and Greece, working on building sites in order to pay people-traffickers, and enduring the physical misery of border crossings squeezed into the false bottoms of lorries or trekking across inhospitable mountains. A series of almost implausible strokes of fortune enabled him to get to Turin, where he found help from an Italian family and met Fabio Geda.

　　The result of their friendship is this unique book in which Enaiatollah's engaging, moving voice is brilliantly captured by Geda's subtle storytelling. In Geda's hands, Enaiatollah's journey becomes a universal story of stoicism in the face of fear, and the search for a place where life is liveable.