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Genre/Form: | Fiction History |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ahmadou Kourouma |
ISBN: | 9780307279576 030727957X |
OCLC Number: | 76167577 |
Description: | 215 pages ; 21 cm |
Other Titles: | Allah n'est pas obligé. |
Responsibility: | by Ahmadou Kourouma ; translated by Frank Wynne. |
Abstract:
When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search hor his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope, and a tiny wage. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment, and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity.
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