by Michael Morpurgo · Harper Collins Publ. UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007230587
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«Alone on a Wide Wide Sea» is Michael Morpurgo's historical fiction novel for young readers, published by Harper Collins Publ. UK in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Arthur Hobhouse is an orphan sent to Australia after World War II, where he faces harsh conditions and forced labour, while finding in the sea a refuge and a passion that will shape his life. As an old man, he builds a boat for his daughter Allie, who sails solo across the oceans to England to find the sister Arthur lost as a child, in a story that alternates between the father's past and the daughter's present.
Published on 4 June 2007, it is available in English and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2008.
For young adult and adult readers looking for novels of adventure, emigration and family bonds with a historical backdrop.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
