Small Boat with Vincent Delecroix

Small Boat with Vincent Delecroix

Join International Booker nominated author Vincent Delecroix to discuss Small Boat.

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By Lambeth Libraries
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Date and time

Saturday, May 17 · 2 - 3:30pm GMT+1

Location

Brixton Library

Brixton Oval London SW2 1JQ United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died.


The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.


Join International Booker nominated author Vincent Delecroix to discuss Small Boat.


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