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A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.
Edit Review An excellent companion read to Americah. This story of a Sudanese Lost Boy will give the reader a much needed understanding of refugee and immigrant experience. A life changing awakening to the needless suffering on this planet. ( )
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Memorable, haunting, educational. Fictionalized account of one of the "lost boys of Sudan" illuminates the fate of this country still in civil wars (Darfar continues in crisis today), and of it citizens. They have it very bad, even though some have survived and "thrived" to the point of being relocated to other countries (U.S. in the case our main character Valentino Achak Deng). My heavens, how good we have it in the developed world; how wretched man can be to man." ( )
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I have no reason not to answer the door so I answer the door.
Preface: What is the What is the soulful account of my life: from the time I was separated from my family in Marial Bai to the thirteen years I spent in Ethiopian and Kenyan refugee camps, to my encounter with vibrant Western cultures beginning in Atlanta, to th generosity and the challenges that I encountered elsewhere.
Citazioni
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"They can come in different shapes and guises, but always wars come in increments. I am convinced there are steps, and that once these events are set into motion, they are virtually impossible to reverse."
"I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run."
Ultime parole
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How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.