Helon Habila

The Chibok Girls

The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Employing a fiction writer's sensibility and a journalist's curiosity, 'The Chibok Girls' provides poignant portraits of everyday Nigerians whose lives have been transformed by extremist forces"--Back cover.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Children of Medjugorje. Inc
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9780997126464
• ISBN-10: 0997126469
• Artikelnr.: 44557674

Autorenporträt

Helon Habila grew up in Nigeria and is the author of three novels, Oil on Water, Measuring Time, and Waiting for an Angel. His fiction, poems, and short stories have won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section), the Virginia Library Foundation's Fiction Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize. Oil on Water was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Orion Book Award, and the PEN/Open Book Award. He is an associate professor of creative writing at George Mason University.

Rezensionen

Publisher's description. An urgent investigation of the infamous 2014 kidnapping of 276 girls from a school in Nigeria. Reporting from inside the traumatised and blockaded community of Chibok, Helon Habila bears witness to this tragedy, interviewing grieving families and returning survivors, and presenting a comprehensive indictment of the terrorist crimes of Boko Haram. Penguin