They poured fire on us from the sky : the true story of three lost boys from Sudan
Title:
They poured fire on us from the sky : the true story of three lost boys from Sudan
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ISBN:
9781610395984
Edition:
10th anniversary ed.
Physical Description:
xxv, 325 pages : 1 map ; 21 cm
Contents:
An introduction to the Lost Boys -- Part one The village of Juol -- Part two Like ants spewing from the nest -- Part three Lost boys -- Part four Preparing for America -- Epilogue -- Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, Alephonsion Deng -- Reading guide.
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Summary:
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. --
