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While Fraillon emphasizes in her author’s note that The Bone Sparrow is a work of fiction, it is based on the real-world Rohingya refugee crisis. The Rohingya people are, by some accounts, some of the most heavily persecuted people in the world.
Jul 11, 2024 · ZANA: So, The Bones Sparrow is a story of a young boy who was born inside an Australian immigration detention centre, Subhi. And when we meet him he's 9 years old, but because he was born inside the detention centre the only world he knows is the one inside the razor wire fences.
The Bone Sparrow is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. This novel reminds us all of the importance of freedom, hope, and the power of a story to speak for anyone who's ever struggled to find a safe home.
Feb 2, 2022 · Published in 2016, Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow tells the story of Subhi, a young Rohingya boy who has spent his entire life inside an Australian detention camp. His world has been shaped by fences, but in his imagination he is free.
Carrying a notebook that she’s unable to read and wearing a sparrow made out of bone around her neck – both talismans of her family’s past and the mother she’s lost – Jimmie strikes up an unlikely friendship with Subhi beyond the fence.
The story is about Jimmie’s great-great-great grandparents, Oto and Anka, who are separated soon after Anka becomes pregnant when a war sweeps through their country. Mirka , a wise old woman, sends Oto to look for Anka with the Bone Sparrow necklace—which has a coin in it—to guide him.
Jul 11, 2016 · Author Zana Fraillon, who lives in Melbourne, says in her Author’s Note that while The Bone Sparrow is fictional, it is “based on an all true reality.” Although the characters, events and places are made up “the policies which have put people like Subhi and his family in detention, and the conditions described, are not.”
