Year of No Rain
An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important work. -- Starred review, Kirkus ReviewsIn the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating - only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen's sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join the guerrillas in southern Sudan and fight the northern government soldiers. He wants a wife to remember him. Stephen thinks Wol is crazy. Children should study. But because of the civil war, there has been no school in their village…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-3656-9
- EAN: 9781429936569
- Produktnummer: 22472920
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 206 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 12 J.
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Alice Mead
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