A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. But the Burmese jungle is a mud-riven, treacherous place, riddled with Japanese snipers, insanity and disease. Burma Boy is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War's most vicious battleground. It's also the moving story of a boy trying to live long enough to become a man.
Vorwort
An intense, moving and funny tale of African soldiers in World War II, the first novel to bring narrative light to this neglected history.
Autorentext
Vorwort
An intense, moving and funny tale of African soldiers in World War II, the first novel to bring narrative light to this neglected history.
Autorentext
Biyi Bandele
Titel
Burma Boy
Autor
EAN
9781446419199
ISBN
978-1-4464-1919-9
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
31.07.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.34 MB
Anzahl Seiten
224
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
Features
Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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