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RADIANCE OF TOMORROW
By: Ishmael Beah
Sarah Crichton Books
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Benjamin; Bockarie
256 pages
ISBN: 0374246025
EAN: 9780374246020
Kindle: B00DXJFRGM
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A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beahโs 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 Leoneโs civil war and the fate of child soldiers that โeveryone in the world should readโ (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called โarguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,โ 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 theyโre 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 townโs water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, theyโre 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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