Read Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse by Edward Hoagland Free Online
 |
Book Title: Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse Loaded: 2027 times Reader ratings: 6.2 The author of the book: Edward Hoagland Edition: Arcade Publishing Date of issue: November 11th 2014 ISBN: 162872420X ISBN 13: 9781628724202 Language: English Format files: PDF The size of the: 3.13 MB City - Country: No data |
Read full description of the books:
This is not the Africa of Isak Dinsen or Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army drafts child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The aid workers who voluntarily subject themselves to life here are a breed apart.
Meet Hickey, an American in is late 30s, a school teacher who burned his bridges with the school board, and finds himself in Africa as an itinerant aid worker. Assisting an agency in Nairobi, one of his jobs is to drive food and medical supplies to an aid station in Southern Sudan run by Ruth, a middle-aged woman, who acts as nurse, doctor, hospice provider, feeder of starving children, and witness. Ruth is gruff but efficient and Hickey, who is usually drawn to youth and beauty, is struck by her devotion. When he returns to Nairobi he can’t forget what he has seen.
Violence and chaos in the region increase to fever pitch and aid workers are being murdered or evacuated. Hickey is asked to save Ruth overland by Jeep, and what happens to them and the children who have joined their flight is searing. In this stunning novel, Hoagland paints an unflinching portrait of human suffering at its worst, and yet amidst that suffering there is hope manifested by humility, sacrifice, and life-affirming friendship.
Download Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse ERUB
Download Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse DOC
Download Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse TXT
Read information about the author
Edward Hoagland (born December 21, 1932, in New York, New York) is an author best known for his nature and travel writing. His non-fiction has been widely praised by writers such as John Updike, who called him "the best essayist of my generation."
Reviews of the Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse
JUDE
From disgust to delight!
ANNA
The book liked more than the previous
AARON
Not impressed
HARRIET
Put it on the toilet paper! or the fireplace!
Add a comment
Download EBOOK Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse by Edward Hoagland Online free
| PDF: | children-are-diamonds-an-african-apocalypse.pdf |  |
| ERUB: | children-are-diamonds-an-african-apocalypse.epub | |
| DOC: | children-are-diamonds-an-african-apocalypse.doc | |
| TXT: | children-are-diamonds-an-african-apocalypse.txt | |
Something a favorite author wrote.
Like Reply