Lampedusa by Pietro Bartolo

Lampedusa by Pietro Bartolo

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Summary

The moving and essential testimony of an Italian doctor who has worked for twenty-five years on the front line of perhaps the largest mass migration in human history

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Lampedusa by Pietro Bartolo

The moving and essential testimony of an Italian doctor who has worked for twenty-five years on the front line of perhaps the largest mass migration in human history
An urgent, wrenching dispatch from the frontline of the defining crisis of our times. . Bartolo is at once the saviour and the coroner to boatload after boatload of migrants who risk everything to cross the deadly seas. It is also a damning indictment of the broader, collective indifference of humankind to both the drowned and the saved. * Philip Gourevitch *
Through Bartolo we understand that it is impossible to do nothing in the face of such great human need * Vanity Fair *
Bartolo tells us about rescuing everyone he can, burying those he cannot, and saving their stories as if they were his own. This is a personal, urgent and universal book * Gloria Steinem *
Dr Pietro Bartolo's account of his years administering to this wretched, threadbare flotilla is a haunting and urgent testimony. He is an impassioned and compelling narrator * Toby Jones *
Pietro Bartolo (Author)
Pietro Bartolo was born in Lampedusa sixty years ago to a family of fishermen and grew up working on his father's boat. He returned to Lampedusa after getting his medical degree, and has been running the clinic since 1991.

Lidia Tilotta (Author)
Lidia Tilotta is a journalist of RAI Regional News and of Mediterraneo.

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ISBN 13 9780857057303
ISBN 10 0857057308
Title Lampedusa
Author Pietro Bartolo
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Year published 2018-05-03
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.