The trio then returns to Meulaboh, where Ruslan is reunited with his father, and Peter gets the medical help he needs. Ruslan leads the Bedford siblings on a danger-wrought yet curiously lumbering journey to a makeshift hospital, but there is no medicine available for a fever-ravaged Peter. Sarah discovers her mother's body and buries her with little emotion (in one of several soap-opera twists, readers later learn that the girl's lack of grief stems from the fact that she read, in the diary her mother kept when she was pregnant with Sarah, ''My resentment of this child within me borders on hate'').

Meanwhile Ruslan watches villagers disappear under the raging water as he takes refuge on a rooftop and then embarks on a search for his father. Teen Sarah Bedford and her younger brother, Peter, become separated from their parents after being forced to abandon their boat. The author (who lives in Indonesia and volunteered as a tsunami relief worker in Aceh), provides a chilling description of the disaster that strikes Aceh the next day. As the novel opens, 16-year-old Ruslan meets the Bedfords, an American family, when the engine on their sailboat breaks down and they seek out Ruslan's mechanic father in the small harbor town of Meulaboh. PDF book The Killing Sea Richard Lewis buy on Bookshop.Lewis (The Flame Tree) sets this rambling novel in northern Indonesia's Aceh, the first area hit by the 2004 tsunami. Online ebook The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis download on iOS. Paperback The Killing Sea read online on Powells. This novel is based on his firsthand experiences. Richard Lewis, who lives in Indonesia, was there during the tsunami and worked as a relief worker in Aceh in the days and weeks following it. The Killing Sea is a high-stakes survival story that puts a human face on a terrible tragedy. Together they travel through the destruction, barely believing all that they see. Ruslan is searching for his missing father, while Sarah is trying to get medical treatment for her sick brother. Ruslan, an Indonesian boy, and Sarah, an American girl, are brought together in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami. He began to run, not knowing exactly why, but instinct making him head away from the sea….Īnd in the distance, along the seafront of Ujung Karang, screams rose from a hundred, a thousand, mouths.Īceh, Indonesia. Ruslan slipped away from the café and the curious onlookers. Genres: fiction, adventure, survival, historical, teen, school, cultural.Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers.