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Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl
… More »Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees-a microcosm of today's Africa-a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear. Uwem Akpan's debut signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent.
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A collection of tales about modern African children in crisis includes "An Ex-Mas Feast," in which an eight-year-old child shares in his family's sacrifices to obtain enough food and enable his education. 360p.
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Add a CommentFive stories (two quite long at about 150 pages each) set in Africa. Child narrators. Harrowing and horrific and unbearably hard to read. The only aspect which did not work well for me was the use of dialogue which was used to show diversity.
Great collection of wide ranging short stories, but due to subject(s) covered, difficult to read at times.
i could not finish reading this book it was too painful & to think these stories were happening to small children it just tore my heart apart. what puzzles me even more is that a catholic priest wrote these stories.
Though the subject of the short stories are a powerful subject, I found the writer's style was really hard to follow. Also, many of the stories seem to drop off without really ending.
Susanne gave this to me at Christmas, 2009
These stories are not easy to read, nor sentimental, but real. While heartbreaking, these stories need to be told.
I felt as though I should probably enjoy this book more than I did...the stories are well-written, and they certainly do put a sympathetic voice to a world that we don't normally hear about. I just can't say that I loved it, nor can I recommend it heartily to others.
These are stories for mature readers. They are not happy stories, but they give insight into the struggles facing poverty-stricken children in Africa. It is disturbing to realize what depths hunger and despair take one to. A number of my friends worked in an orphanage in Tanzania and their tales of the abject poverty that abounds gives authenticity to these stories. May they spur us on to do something tangible to assist children in areas of need.
Not nuts about this. Sounds a little inauthentic
May 2010