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Child I - Softcover

Tasane, Steve

 
9780571337835: Child I
Softcover
ISBN 10: 057133783X ISBN 13: 9780571337835
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

An extraordinary novella with echoes of Once and The Road; set in an otherworldly plain with hints of magical realism.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

I am the son of a refugee, but that is not the reason why I wrote Child I.

When I was a child I was a recipient of free school dinners, and charity bags full of toys and suchlike at Christmastime. We were a charity case and I had a foreign-sounding name - Tasane - and difficulty speaking English well. But in some ways, the worst thing of all, was that my father then deserted me and my three brothers, and my mother. We were a broken home. I hated being a 'broken' child.

I grew up intensely envious of my friends who had a father. I grew up feeling the same otherness that my father must have felt as a refugee arriving in the UK.

Child I is not my story. But it draws together the links between my own shattered upbringing and that of young refugee children growing up in today's crisis-defined world. Nothing has really changed. We just want to belong. We just want to not be hungry. We just want to be able to laugh and play. We want to be.

And that is why I wrote Child I.

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A group of undocumented children with letters for names, are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. And what will happen to them if they aren't?An astonishing piece of writing that will enchant and intrigue children;

Aus dem Klappentext

A group of undocumented children with letters for names, are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. As they try to forge a new family amongst themselves, they also long to keep memories of their old identities alive.

Will they be heard and believed? And what will happen to them if they aren't?

An astonishing piece of writing that will enchant and intrigue children; perfectly pitched at a 9+ readership.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
057133783X
ISBN 13 
9780571337835
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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