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008 030211s2003 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2003044065
020 $a0374266530 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDT516.826$b.B47 2003
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100 1 $aBergner, Daniel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90709434
245 10 $aIn the land of magic soldiers :$ba story of white and black in West Africa /$cDaniel Bergner.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2003.
300 $a216 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004248
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2003044065.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hDT516.826$i.B47 2003