This is the first novel by the author. He has served as president of an NGO, worked for the UN Refugee Agency in Afghanistan, Sudan, North Macedonia, and Switzerland; Danish Refugee Council; EU in Georgia; UNICEF; and WaterAid. He roamed the globe as an independent journalist focusing on writing, photography, and documentary film. The two latter earned him awards. www.adam-jacobi.com
In the process of researching the book The Boy Who Could Swim the author spent seventeen days in an Iranian security prison charged with spying; witnessed a warlord in Afghanistan attack his neighbour-another warlord; had to be evacuated after a Taliban attack killed several colleagues and travelled and interviewed migrants on the move. The author's story is pale though in comparison to that of The Boy Who Could Swim and the many displaced children out there right now-alone and on the move.
