Beneath the Darkening Sky by Tulba, Majok

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215mm x 134mm x 20mm

Pages: 256

WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE, THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE AND NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER LITERARY AWARDS

On the day that ObinnaGÇÖs village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave, to be shaped into an agent of horror GÇô a child soldier. Marched through minefields and forced into battle, enduring a brutal daily existence, Obinna slowly works out which parts of himself to save and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down.