2026-05-01
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Any other child would have died.
The miraculous survival of Nada Itrab by Giles Tremlett, read by Nora Lopez Holden.
On the 27th of August, 2013, a tall, spirited nine-year-old girl with long,
well-brushed hair boarded an overnight coach in Barcelona.
Nada Itrab was bright and observant.
At school, she regularly came top of her class.
Even now, she carried a notebook, eager to record the things she would discover on this trip.
She'd been given a camera too.
A cheap, lilac-coloured digital model, which, since she was unused to luxuries, seemed to her like a treasure.
In eight hours, Nada would be at Barajas Airport in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
She would take her first flight, heading for Bolivia's largest city, Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
To her, the trip was an adventure, like something from the storybooks that she read at her local library
in Los Pitalet de Llobregat, a city just south of Barcelona.
The daughter of undocumented immigrants from Morocco, Nada had lived there since she was four.
Only one other person was travelling with Nada.