The Foghorn Echoes

De: Danny Ramadan

Narrado por: Danny Ramadan, Hani Mefta, Noor Hamdi

Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the future, he has failed to keep his promise. Wassim is on the streets, seeking shelter from both the city and the civil war storming his country. Meanwhile Hussam, now on the other side of the world, remains haunted by his own ghosts, doing his utmost to drown them out with every vice imaginable.

Split between war-torn Damascus and Vancouver, The Foghorn Echoes is a tragic love story about coping with shared traumatic experience and devastating separation. As Hussam and Wassim come to terms with the past, they begin to realise the secret that haunts them is not the only secret that formed them.

©2022 Danny Ramadan (P)2022 Canongate Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

A remarkable read. Danny Ramadan opens a world for his readers and guides them through it with sensitivity and suspense (BERNHARD SCHLINK)

Studded with the kind of graceful poetry that makes the most hardened heart soar like a silktail . . . Ramadan has gifted his readers with a resistance manifesto coded with love (DIRIYE OSMAN)

By turns sombre, fantastical, violent and tender, Ahmad Danny Ramadan's English-language debut is a gay son's conflicted love letter to Syria (Globe and Mail)

Beautiful and moving!

I loved it, I don’t normally feel compelled to rate books on here. This one was just excellent and I enjoyed the different characters in different voices a lot. Great writing.

Spectacular

Captivating characters, intense and quiet and beautiful. Engrossing story with danger in every breath. Excellent.