Black Mamba Boy
Title | Black Mamba Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2010-08-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429979798 |
Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother—alternately raging and loving—dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the rumors that travel along clan lines report that he is a driver for the British somewhere in the north. So begins Jama's extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt, by camel, by truck, by train, but mostly on foot. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just a day or two out of reach. In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality; he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war; he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. Bursting with life and a rough joyfulness, Black Mamba Boy is debut novelist Nadifa Mohamed's vibrant, moving celebration of her family's own history.
The Orchard of Lost Souls
Title | The Orchard of Lost Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374709920 |
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes The Orchard of Lost Souls, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war. It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak of war. In The Orchard of Lost Souls, she returns to Hargeisa in her imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
Mamba Point
Title | Mamba Point PDF eBook |
Author | Kurtis Scaletta |
Publisher | Yearling Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 037585472X |
After moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he and the deadly black mamba have a mystical connection, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Title | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind PDF eBook |
Author | William Kamkwamba |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2015-02-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1101637420 |
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.
Black Mamba Boy
Title | Black Mamba Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783423145350 |
Mamba boy
Title | Mamba boy PDF eBook |
Author | Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9788854503991 |
Black Mamba Boy
Title | Black Mamba Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | Editions Phébus |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782752904591 |
Ce premier roman de Nadifa Mohamed débute à Aden, au Yémen, en 1935. Il retrace la vie mouvementée de Jama, un enfant des rues dont le père a disparu peu après la naissance et dont la mère lui jure qu’il est né sous une bonne étoile. A la mort de celle-ci, Jama part à la recherche de son géniteur. Ce périple rendu incandescent par la croyance en une terre promise, lui fait traverser l’Abyssinie, la Somalie, l’Erythrée, le Soudan, l’Egypte et la Palestine. Mais chaque frontière franchie se révèle source de déception. Les décennies passent, les empires coloniaux s’effondrent, le monde change, cependant Jama l’aventurier demeure un laissé-pour-compte, malgré le serpent tatoué sur son bras, le fameux mamba noir. Evocation puissante de contrées en proie à la guerre, mais aussi roman de formation, Black Mamba Boy est une véritable épopée qui nous fait mieux comprendre le destin de cette partie du globe.