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The Gift of Sacrifice tells the story of Soad, a young Bangladeshi boy who migrates from his home to Rome, where he dreams of being able to make enough money to support his poor family back in Bangladesh. He arrives early in the summer and quickly establishes himself as a street seller at a beach near Rome. There he quickly falls in with a group of other Bangladeshi boys who are also street sellers and who are also working to send money back to their families in Bangladesh. They are able to do reasonably well with their business with the tourists.

But when Fall comes, and the Romans retreat back to their city, Soad follows his friends back to Rome, where street selling is much more restricted and often illegal. Soad faces a new series of challenges, not only in making enough money to support his family and himself, but also with regard to his relations with his family and his new friends in Rome. This is a story that explores in some depth the challenges faced by young immigrants who discover that the land of their dreams is not what they expected.

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Publié par	Edilivre
Date de parution	22 juillet 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9782414529933
Langue	Français
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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© Edilivre, 2021
Dedication
Laurence Engel President of the National Library of France
Nur ALOM with his niece Pakhi and nephews Abu Hanif, Shariatullah and Saifullah at a park for children in Shariatpur, Naria, Colokathi.
Preface
To forget himself to take care of his family, friends, community, and country to give them peace, happiness and comfort and to sacrifice his own life is often the lot of the expatriate.
Aside from leaving their own countries, living their lives in exile to make their family members happy and bring smiles to their faces, as well as trying to enhance perceptions of their home countries through their representations of it, expatriates give away a sense of themselves to fulfill their hopes for their family and country.
All day long the expatriate sweats and waits for the end of the month to collect his wages. At that time, he gives his wife and children the earnings of the sweat from his brow. He wants to talk to them on his little phone to feel their joy, which is the joy of the expatriate. Seeing their happiness enables him to forget his struggles as an expatriate and makes him happy as well.
What do family members and other people think of the expatriate who forgets himself to feel the happiness and joy of his family and others? Is this normal? They think that he has gone abroad to hide from them and that his has forgotten his own country! They think he lacks in kindness. But this expatriate always is wanting for them to fulfill their dreams.
The expatriate sacrifices his own dreams for the dreams of his family, country and others. He sacrifices to see the smiles of his family and others. How can they be so merciless? What else could he do to make them merciful? After the expatriate’s death, would they consider him to be a good man? This is the only remaining question. We are waiting for the answer.
Nur ALOM.
Chapter 1
During the summer vacation, everybody went to the beach. Soad stayed in the city waiting for his friends so they could all leave together. They decided to go the next morning. It still being night, Soad was still sleeping. His friends told him they would take him with them in the morning, but everyone, in the morning rush, left without him.
Before the others left, Kicir and Micir left together. It was still dark and Soad was still sleeping. He turned off his alarm because he did not want to disturb his friends. He arose at his usual time and saw that everyone had left without him. Only Romzan was still at home, but he was still sleeping.
Soad finished his morning prayers and thought about what he would do. He decided to ask Romzan for ideas. Soad knocked on Romzan’s door and Romzan opened it, invited him in, and told him to sit down. Romzan could see disappointment in Soad’s face.
“What’s wrong?” asked Romzan.
Soad looked up and started to answer…
Romzan listened carefully to Soad’s disappointment in the others’ having left without him. Romzan then suggested that Soad take the next train himself and catch up with them. He showed Soad the map and explained to him how to use it, and took him to the train station. He explained how to buy train tickets both from the ticket machine and from the ticket counter. And he showed him the departure board that indicated when the train would leave. While doing so, Ramzan met one of his old friends. Immediately he understood that his friend was also going to the beach.
“Hey, my friend, how are you?”
His friend, Rabbi, replied, “I’m well, how about you?
“Very well, and I’m delighted to see you! It seems like you are going to the beach?”
“Yes, I am. Why are you here? Do you want to come along?”
“Not me, really, but let me introduce my best friend, Soad, who lives with me. He recently came to Italy and does not speak Italian and does not know how to get to the beach. Could you take him with you?”
“I’d be happy to bring him with me. Don’t worry, I’ll get him there safely.”
Soad and Rabbi immediately hit it off and started talking about various things.
Once Soad met Rabbi, his disappointment lifted and his face showed happiness. They were both curious about each other and wanted to discover whatever they could. Soad asked many questions, and Rabbi answered all of them.
Soad asked Rabbi about how to use the ticket on the train.
Rabbi showed him the ticket and explained that the train would leave at 8:05 from Rome and arrive in Sicily. They would be in car number 9, in upstairs seats 80A and 80B.
He went on to explain that they could not get on the train where they were standing. They would have to find out the track number and go to it.
“Let’s go to check on the departures screen,” Rabbi said. “It will tell us what track to go to.”
He showed Soad the big departures screen and pointed out the train they would be taking and its track number. The screen indicated that their train would be on track number 2. Rabbi showed Soad the sign indicating where Track 2 would be.
They proceeded as indicated by the sign and arrived at Track 2.
“Now we are at Track 2, but now we must find out where Car Number 9 will be,” Rabbi told Soad.
Rabbi showed Soad the chart indicating where the various cars would be:

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