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Momo
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Nine-year-old Momo grows up in a small coastal town where the ocean is both promise and warning. Each morning, he watches his mother struggle to hold their fragile life together, and each evening, he dreams of a future beyond poverty. When stories of young men reaching Europe begin to circulate - stories of money, dignity, and rescued families - hope slowly transforms into a dangerous decision.
Driven by love and the unbearable desire to make his mother smile, Momo sets out on the Backway: the clandestine migration route across the Sahara Desert, through violent transit zones, and onto the unforgiving waters of the Mediterranean. Along the journey, innocence collides with exploitation, faith confronts despair, and survival demands impossible choices.
Momo is a haunting literary novel about migration, childhood, sacrifice, and the price of hope. Blending intimate storytelling with the political realities of modern displacement, it gives voice to the thousands whose journeys are reduced to statistics - those who left, those who vanished, and those still waiting to be found.
This is not only a story about crossing borders.
It is a story about love strong enough to challenge fate.
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