Learning The Hard Way: the boy who trekked across worlds - Couverture souple

Maker, William Mayom

 
9780645210545: Learning The Hard Way: the boy who trekked across worlds
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0645210544 ISBN 13 : 9780645210545
Editeur : Africa World Books Pty, Limited, 2021

Synopsis

When William Mayom Maker leaves home at eleven years to become a guerrilla fighter for the Sudan People's Liberation Army, he has one desire-to get a gun and protect his mother and the entire village. Caught up in the Second Sudanese Civil War, it will be thirty years before he returns home as a stranger to his Agaar culture and the people in his isolated village. In those intermittent years, the naked cattle-herder undergoes multiple transformations. First, as a guerrilla and boy monster where constant brushes with near-death experiences are the norm. Then, as a refugee in the desolate wilderness of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and finally as a new immigrant resettling in the West. In that journey across worlds, he endures nostalgia for his family and culture, faces the horror of war and agony of loss, and finally must embrace the modern world's "miseries" and its freedom and opportunities.William Mayom Maker now lives in Canada.

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Éditeur
Africa World Books Pty, Limited
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0645210544
ISBN 13 
9780645210545
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
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Personne responsable
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