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The Foghorn Echoes

The Foghorn Echoes

by Danny Ramadan
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/11/2022

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A devastating novel about broken relationships, the promises we're unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your past.

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.

ISBN:
9781838854669
9781838854669
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-11-2022
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
214x135x21mm
Weight:
0.28kg
"Treat your thoughts like hurt children. They haven't learned yet how to handle pain". So says a wise ghost in Danny Ramadan's sweeping and mesmerising story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly. This is a beautiful novel, written by a once hurt child and loved and deeply admired by another, me.'
- Alan Cumming
Danny Ramadan

Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and an LGBTQ-refugee activist. His debut novel The Clothesline Swing won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Fiction, was shortlisted for the Evergreen Award and the Sunburst Award and was named as a finalist for the Gay Fiction Category in the Lambda Awards.

He is also the author of a children's picture book, Salma the Syrian Chef. Danny also translated Rafi Badawi's 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think and has published two collections of short stories in Arabic. He was awarded the StandOut Award for his social activism, the 2018 RBC's Top Immigrant in Canada award, and the Bonham Centre Award for Excellency. He lives in Vancouver with his husband.

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