By Emily Younker

Italian author Fabio Geda will be the featured speaker at several lectures and book-signing events scheduled at Missouri Southern State University this week.

Geda is the author of the notable nonfiction novel "In the Sea There are Crocodiles," which has been translated into more than 30 languages and adapted into a play.

It is based on the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, a 10-year-old boy living in a small village in Afghanistan. After he is threatened by the Taliban over a hypothetical debt contracted by his father, the boy's mother, fearing for his life, leads him across the border. Over a five-year journey that takes him through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Greece, the boy finally reaches Italy, where he finds a new family and obtains political refugee status.

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