West Africa
Cote d'Ivoire
Contemporary
French
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Birahima, a 12-year-old child soldier in Sierra Leone and Liberia, narrates his journey through the wars with savage humor and moral clarity, consulting four dictionaries to describe events that no dictionary can contain.
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Won the Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt des Lyceens 2000; a landmark novel about the child soldier experience
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editorial-summarynot primary textBirahima, a 12-year-old child soldier in Sierra Leone and Liberia, narrates his journey through the wars with savage humor and moral clarity, consulting four dictionaries to describe events that no dictionary can contain. Won the Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt des Lyceens 2000; a landmark novel about the child soldier experience
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