{"description": "Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.", "title": "Sea Prayer", "subject_places": ["Syria"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Refugees", "Fathers and sons", "History", "nyt:hardcover-fiction=2018-10-07", "New York Times bestseller", "Fiction, family life, general", "Middle east, fiction", "Fiction, political", "Fiction, family life"], "key": "/works/OL19753342W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1412764A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["Civil War, 2011-"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8240369, 11762459, 12115645], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-24T10:16:32.878602"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-08T21:25:40.313072"}}