In the land of magic soldiers
a story of white and Black in West Africa
by Daniel Bergner
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"In the Land of Magic Soldiers tells the stories of a group of native Sierra Leoneans: a father who rescues his daughter from rape, loses his hands as punishment, and then begins to rebuild his life; a child soldier (and sometime cannibal) and the priest who tries to help him; and a highly Westernized medical student with an immunity to bullets and a cure for HIV. Interwoven with their stories are those of the would-be saviors: a family of American missionaries who make their home in a tiny village as the war overruns them; a mercenary helicopter gunship pilot who thrives on the fighting he tries to end; and the army of Great Britain, committed to intensive intervention in a country that is so anarchic and desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized."--Jacket.
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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa
2004, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
1466803630 9781466803633
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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa
September 9, 2004, Picador
Paperback
in English
031242292X 9780312422929
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In the land of magic soldiers: a story of white and black in Africa
2003, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
0374266530 9780374266530
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In the land of magic soldiers: a story of white and Black in West Africa
2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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"There is a place where the bend in a path-just that, a slight curve in a narrow strip of mud-can produce an ache, a longing, a bending of the heart."
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