The Bone Sparrow : shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017 Condition:Good ’ Paul McKenna

’ Paul McKenna

Pinkus is professor of French and Italian at the University of Southern California

snowbound passes and nameless forts

the Jordan crisis of 1970

So in late 1969

The Bone Sparrow : shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017 Condition:Good ’ Paul McKennaSubhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, Subhi has only ever known life behind the fences. But his world is far bigger than thatevery night, the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories. And as he grows, his imagination threatens to burst beyond the limits of his