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Beneath the darkening sky  Cover Image Book Book

Beneath the darkening sky

Tulba, Majok (author.).

Summary: On the day that Obinna's village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave, to be shaped into an agent of horror - a child soldier. Marched through minefields and forced into battle, enduring a brutal daily existence, Obinna slowly works out which parts of himself to save and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down.

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  • ISBN: 9781780742410 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 178074241X (paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    239 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: London : Oneworld, 2013.
Subject: Child soldiers -- Africa -- Fiction
Children and war -- Africa -- Fiction
Children and violence -- Africa -- Fiction

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Summary: On the day that Obinna's village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave, to be shaped into an agent of horror - a child soldier. Marched through minefields and forced into battle, enduring a brutal daily existence, Obinna slowly works out which parts of himself to save and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down.

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