Guantanamo Boy - Couverture rigide

Perera, Anna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807530778 ISBN 13 : 9780807530771

Editeur : Albert Whitman & Company, 2011

Synopsis

Guantanamo Boy Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

This powerful and humane book shows that hatred is never an answer, and proves the pointlessness of torture and the danger of thinking of anyone as 'other.' (Nicolette Jones Sunday Times)

One of her greatest achievements is to make the frightening monotony of the two years he suffers so full of suspense. (Kate Kellaway Observer)

An excellent novel . . . superb (Amanda Craig The Times)

Extremely powerful, and the descriptions of torture are genuinely harrowing. (The Guardian)

Timely, gritty fiction. (Times Review)

Could it happen? It has happened. That's why teenagers should read this book. (Irish Times)

Rising star: Anna Perera. Her novel highlights the teenagers sent to the camp as it tugs readers into its vivid nightmare journey. (The Independent)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Albert Whitman & Company
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807530778
• ISBN 13: 9780807530771
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 339
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible