Books by Benson deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak (1)


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They poured fire on us from the sky by Benson deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / South Sudan flag South Sudan
Description:
A 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 n... continue