They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky (10-Year Anniversary REISSUE)
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A Long Way Gone
A01=Alephonsion Deng
A01=Benjamin Ajak
A01=Benson Deng
A01=Judy A. Bernstein
Africa
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Author_Alephonsion Deng
Author_Benjamin Ajak
Author_Benson Deng
Author_Judy A. Bernstein
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Category=DNXP
Category=HBJH
Category=HBLW3
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cattle camps
child soldiers
civil war
COP=United States
Dave Eggers
dehydration
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Dinka
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Ethiopia
ethnic cleansing
God Grew Tired of Us
Kakuma
Kenya
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Lost Boys
Lost Boys of Sudan
malaria
malnourishment
migration
North Africa
Northern Africa
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rebels
refugees
resettlement
softlaunch
South Sudan
Sudan
UNHCR
UNICEF
United Nations
What is the What
yellow fever
Product details
- ISBN 9781610395984
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 140 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2015
- Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Christopher Award Winner Los Angeles Times Bestseller Washington Post Top 100 Books of the Year SelectionA stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin,hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a moving, beautifully written account, by turns warm and tender."Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. 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. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky is the three boys' account of that unimaginable journey. With the candour and the purity of their child's-eye-vision, Alephonsian, Benjamin, and Benson recall by turns: how they endured the hunger and strength-sapping illnesses,dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever how they dodged the life-threatening predators,lions, snakes, crocodiles and soldiers alike,that dogged their footsteps and how they grappled with a war that threatened continually to overwhelm them. Their story is a lyrical, captivating, timeless portrait of a childhood hurled into wartime and how they had the good fortune and belief in themselves to survive.
Alephonsion and Benson Deng and their cousin Benjamin Ajak left the Sudan in 1987, and were relocated in 2001 from the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya to the United States as part of an international refugee relief program. Today, Alephonsian Deng attends San Diego City College and works in the Medical Records Department at Kaiser Permanente Hospital. He has spoken to many schools, universities, clubs and organizations about his extraordinary story in Africa and adapting to his life here in America. Benson Deng runs the computer and digital photography system at Waste Management in El Cajon, CA. Benjamin Ajak resides in San Diego and speaks full time to organizations and schools, sharing his amazing life and insights into surviving as a child of war and a newcomer to the U.S. Judy Bernstein is a mother, writer, Student Advisor for the Community Economic Development Department at San Diego State University, volunteer mentor and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the San Diego International Rescue Committee and co-founder of the IRC Lost Boys Education Fund. She speaks with her co-authors to community groups, temples, churches, and schools.
