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Sarah Crichton Books
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Benjamin; Bockarie
256 pages
ISBN: 0374246025
EAN: 9780374246020
Kindle: B00DXJFRGM
Hardcover / e-Book
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A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author
of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah’s 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”
(The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has
called “arguably the most read African writer in
contemporary literature,” has returned with his first novel,
an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow
are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends
who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil
war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones.
As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin
and Bockarie try to forge a new community by
taking up their former posts as teachers, but
they’re beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of
murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the
depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying
the town’s water supply and blocking its paths with
electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to
restore order, they’re forced to reckon with the
uncertainty of their past and future alike. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of
a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel
about preserving what means the most to us, even in
uncertain times.
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