Destination Paradise by Francesca Borri
Western tourists are not always aware that the Maldives is a Muslim country, or that the Republic of Maldives is the non-Arab country with the world's highest number of foreign fighters per capita. All the wealth coming from tourism is concentrated in the hands of a few businessmen. The Maldives is a fertile breeding ground for ISIS, which enlists more of its foreign fighters per capita from there than anywhere else. Francesca Borri spent time with them, and with their families and friends, all of whom are drivers, waiters, cleaners in tourist resorts. And she let them speak.
FRANCESCA BORRI was born in Bari, Italy. She initially worked as a human rights adviser in the Middle East, especially in Israel and Palestine, before turning to journalism in 2012 to cover the battle for Aleppo. Since then, her dispatches have been translated into 21 languages. Five years and 500,000 deaths later, she still lives in Syria and Iraq, and in between one ceasefire and the next, she writes about Palestinians for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's main newspaper. She is the author of Syrian Dust (Seven Stories Press, 2016). ANNE MILANO APPEL was awarded the Italian Prose in Translation Award (2015), the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation (2013) and the Northern California Book Award for Translation-Fiction (2014, 2013). She has translated works by Claudio Magris, Primo Levi, Paolo Giordano, Andrea Canobbio, Giuseppe Catozzella, Roberto Saviano, and numerous others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609808433 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609808436 |
| Title | Destination Paradise |
| Author | Francesca Borri |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2018-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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