Adult books from Sierra Leone
Recommended adult books (2)
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If you are into adult here are some adult books from Sierra Leone for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna EN
Country: Africa / Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Description:
A young West African woman, who has been living in England for years and is married to a British man, returns to visit her family after years of civil war and receives an extraordinary look into the lives of the women in her family over the past century.
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Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah EN
Country: Africa / Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Description:
A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. "Every story begins and ends with a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a girl, a child. Every story is a birth..." So begins Radiance of Tomorrow, Ishmael Beah's first novel, one dogged by memories of horror but glimmering with an improbable hope. When Beah ' s memoir, A Long Way Gone, was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone ' s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that " everyone in the world should read " (Carolyn See, The ... continue