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Jamala safari biography of william
The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of the Gods
August 6, 2013
This book tells the story of Risto, an unwilling child soldier from the DRC. He is kidnapped and forced into a life of brutality and unbelievable cruelty, is lucky enough to be left for dead and so is rescued and is free, and then leaves the DRC to travel overland to Mozambique.
This book tells the story of Risto, an unwilling child soldier from the DRC. He is kidnapped and forced into a life of brutality and unbelievable cruelty, is lucky enough to be left for dead and so is rescued and is free, and then leaves the DRC to travel overland to Mozambique.
Risto’s stoy is not that of an actual child soldier (this book is fiction), but he is any one of thousands of child soldiers across Africa.
The details and events in this book were harrowing at times; I found myself reading with my shoulders pulled away from the book and my eyes scrunched up as you would view a scary movie.
It is not that the descriptions are vivid or graphic, but the casualness with which truly awful events are described is in many ways even worse.
I am still disturbed at the idea of cutting someone’s arm off. Who does that?
And how? Shudder.
I am also haunted by the fact that the child soldiers are called Kidogo – the Swahil