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James Riordan - Blood Runner, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2011

Blood Runner

Av James Riordan

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Samuel's parents and young sister, innocent bystanders during an uprising, are killed by South African police. Samuel is sent to live with his uncle, a tribal chief in the Bantu homeland, while his brother vows to join the African National Congress armed struggle and avenge his family's deaths. In the h omeland, Samuel discovers he can run faster than anyone and before long begins to train under his English-educated uncle. Years later, after the end of Apartheid, Samuel is selected as the token black South African athlete to run in the Olympics. President Nelson Mandela is there when he wins his gold medal, and Samuel dedicates it to 'a very special man... I was running for the President. I was running for my country.'This is a fictional story, not a biography. It follows one man's struggle for freedom in Apartheid South Africa during the years before Nelson Mandela's release from prison. Many of the events portrayed actually happened. The characters, however, are entirely fictional. The book is inspired in part by Josiah Thugwane, the first black South African to win an Olympic gold medal. It is dedicated to all South Africans, black and white, who fought to bring justice and freedom to their country.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-11-14
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781781010433
  • Förlag: Frances Lincoln Ebooks
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James Riordan travelled the world collecting folktales and published over thirty volumes of tales from different countries. The Twelve Labours of Hercules won the UK Reading Association Award 1998. He was Emeritus Professor at the University of Surry and Visiting Professor at the University of Worcester, as well as holding honorary degrees from Birmingham, London, Moscow and Grenoble. He regularly reviewed children's books for The Times., and his autobiography, Comrade Jim: the spy who played for Spartak, was published in 2008 by Fourth Estate. He also wrote ten novels for young people. His first, Sweet Clarinet, won the NASEN award in 1999 and was nominated for the Whitbread Prize in 1998. Match of Death won the South Lanarkshire Book Award in 2004, and The Gift was nominated for the NASEN award in 2006. He published a novel on slavery, Rebel Cargo, with Frances Lincoln in 2007. James Riordan died in 2012.

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Christmas Books of the Year: 'Blood Runner', almost a work of "docu-fiction", is inspired by Josiah Thugwane who, at Atlanta in 1996 became the first black South African to win an Olympic gold medal. It's a moving story which take the fictional Sam from the worst of apartheid to acheive Thugwane did in real life.

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