Häftad, Engelska, 2009
Guantanamo Boy
Av Anna Perera
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Beskrivning
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2009-02-05
- Mått: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
- Vikt: 245 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 352
- Förlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN: 9780141326078
- Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (Children's) 2009
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Anna Perera was born in London to an Irish mother and Sri Lankan father. She worked as an English teacher in two secondary schools in London, and later became responsible for a unit for excluded boys. She lives in Hampshire, England. Guantanamo Boy is her first teenage novel.
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This powerful and humane book shows that hatred is never an answer, and proves the pointlessness of torture and the danger of thinking of anyone as 'other.'
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