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Chargement... They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan (2005)par Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein, Alephonsian Deng (Auteur), Benson Deng (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. true account, Sudan, horrific but also with heart ( ) In 1987, Alephonsion and Benson Deng, along with their cousin Benjamin -- not one of them older than seven -- fled with thousands of other children during attacks on their rural villages in southern Sudan, walking hundreds of miles over many months to escape the conflict, which followed close in their footsteps. With only a handful of grown adults to guide and encourage them, the boys were compelled to forage for their own food and build their own shelters, all the while at the mercy of the hot, arid environment and hazards of local wildlife. Shunted from refugee camp to refugee camp, they ultimately saw many of their brethren succumb to starvation, disease or violence, before finally -- after fourteen years in refugee camps -- Alepho, Benson and Benjamin were approved to enter the U.S. in hopes of rebuilding their lives and healing themselves. The plight of refugees, fragile lives stuck in impossible, unrelenting limbo, are described in frank and painful detail. There could not be a more timely or heartbreaking read for 2017. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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As gunshots, flames, and screams engulfed their village, three cousins fled into the cover of the forest. Every step led the boys away from their peaceful, agrarian world--a traditional world were spear-toting fathers protected their huts from the lions that roamed by night. With each footstep they were drawn deeper into the horrific violence of Sudan's civil war: a world of bombed-out villages, mine-sown roads, and relentless desert, a world where starving adults would snatch the grain from a weak child's fingers. Across Sudan, between 1987 and 1989, tens of thousands of young boys took flight from these massacres. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live. This book is the three boys' account of that unimaginable journey.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)962.40430922History and Geography Africa Egypt; Sudan; South Sudan Sudan [& South Sudan] Sudan & South Sudan Sudan & South Sudan Darfur & South SudanClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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