Books set in Eritrea (4)
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I Will Not Grow Downward - Memoir of an Eritrean Refugee : My Long and Perilous Flight from Africa's Hermit Kingdom by Kenneth James Howe, Yikealo Neab EN
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I WILL NOT GROW DOWNWARD - MEMOIR OF AN ERITREAN REFUGEEONE MAN'S LONG AND PERILOUS FLIGHT FROM AFRICA'S HERMIT KINGDOM THIRTY YEARS OF BLOODY CONFLICT with a powerful enemy never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people. After winning their freedom from Ethiopia, a young man dreams of starting a new life, building a home, and teaching his children what it means to be the masters of their own fate. But all-too soon, the fighting resumes. Rounded up and forced into conscription, subjected to inhumane treatment, made to serve a despotic leader in an army fighting a war nobody wants, he will have ... continue
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Las consecuencias del amor by Sulaiman Addonia ES
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El joven Naser sueña con enamorarse de una muchacha de su edad, un riesgo considerable en Arabia Saudí, un país donde las relaciones entre un hombre y una mujer solteros están terminantemente prohibidas y severamente castigadas.Un día, mientras descansa bajo la sombra de su árbol favorito, una desconocida deja a sus pies una nota perfumada. La joven huye corriendo y él sólo consigue ver sus zapatos, de un rosa intenso.A partir de entonces, tanto Fiore como Naser viven únicamente para intercambiarse cartas de amor. Su pasión les arrastra hasta el punto de poner en peligro sus vidas.
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Silence Is My Mother Tongue : A Novel by Sulaiman Addonia EN
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A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inabilit... continue