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Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club (Re: Osama Mohammed)
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الاستاذ اسامة شكرا جزيلا علي المرور بالبوست وعلي الكتاب الجميل
Say You’re One of Them is a powerful collection of short stories. Told from the perspective of young children, the collection takes us into the brutality of the childrens’ lives in Africa. Each story is a slow awakening to unbelievable horrors for both the child and the reader. The first story, An Ex-Mas feast, looks at a poverty-striken family that must rely on their twelve year old daughter’s income to survive. She has to prostitute herself for food and money but she is trying to earn enough money so her younger brother can go to school. The children in "Fattening for Gabon" are being prepared for sale into slavery by their uncle. In "What Language Is That?" two little Ethiopian girls are best friends until their parents suddenly say they cannot speak to each other anymore because one is Muslim and the other is Christian. In "Luxurious Hearses", a Nigerian boy from the north is trying to escape to relatives in the south on a bus filled with the same religious animosity that he hopes to escape. The final story, "My Parent's Bedroom", describes the violence between the Rwandan Hutus and Tutsis as seen through the eyes of a young girl who has mixed parentage.
About the Author
Uwem Akpan was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in southern Nigeria. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003, and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. "My Parents' Bedroom", a story included in this, his first book, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing.
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Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 09:58 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-08-08, 10:15 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 11:01 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Maawya Hussein | 11-08-08, 10:33 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 10:58 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | هشام الطيب | 11-08-08, 11:05 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 05:38 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-08-08, 07:19 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 07:54 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 11:15 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-08-08, 08:35 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Abbas Mohamed | 11-08-08, 09:21 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Foetus | 11-08-08, 09:38 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 03:43 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 03:49 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | عبدالمجيد صالح | 11-09-08, 04:00 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 07:37 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ابراهيم قناوي | 11-09-08, 09:50 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 11:04 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 11:13 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Nasr | 11-10-08, 01:05 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Badreldin Ahmed Musa | 11-10-08, 07:11 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-10-08, 07:48 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sana Khalid | 11-11-08, 02:14 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 09:51 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 10:36 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 10:47 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 11:17 PM |
زهور ذابلة | salee | 11-12-08, 11:39 PM |
Re: زهور ذابلة | محمد الجزولي | 11-13-08, 00:01 AM |
Re: زهور ذابلة | salee | 11-13-08, 00:28 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-13-08, 00:02 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-13-08, 00:05 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-13-08, 00:15 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-13-08, 00:25 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Mohamed Elgadi | 11-13-08, 01:36 AM |
نادي سودانيز اون لاين | salee | 11-13-08, 08:29 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-14-08, 00:03 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-14-08, 01:08 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-15-08, 00:03 AM |
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | salee | 11-15-08, 00:20 AM |
Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | salee | 11-15-08, 09:42 PM |
Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | salee | 11-15-08, 10:07 PM |
Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | Badreldin Ahmed Musa | 11-15-08, 10:25 PM |
A link to the letter concerning toleration | salee | 11-16-08, 08:27 AM |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | salee | 11-15-08, 10:26 PM |
Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes | salee | 11-16-08, 08:49 AM |
تاكسي.. حواديت المشاوير | salee | 11-18-08, 02:42 PM |
الرجال من المريخ.. النساء من الزهرة | salee | 11-18-08, 08:03 PM |
كتاب منة الرحمن في بعض أسرار القرآن | salee | 11-18-08, 09:35 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-18-08, 11:40 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-19-08, 04:34 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Ash | 11-19-08, 05:34 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-19-08, 05:38 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-19-08, 03:33 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-19-08, 05:41 PM |
اليهودية عقيدة وشريعة | salee | 11-20-08, 01:04 PM |
Re: اليهودية عقيدة وشريعة | انور الطيب | 11-20-08, 03:35 PM |
Re: اليهودية عقيدة وشريعة | salee | 11-20-08, 07:57 PM |
رسالة الغفران لأبي العلاء المعري | salee | 11-20-08, 08:05 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-20-08, 08:36 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-20-08, 09:13 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | محمد عثمان محمد طه | 11-21-08, 07:58 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-21-08, 10:39 AM |
الاسلام يتحدي | salee | 11-21-08, 10:55 PM |
خاتم النبيين | salee | 11-22-08, 09:52 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-22-08, 10:04 AM |
الابتهاج بخلاصة العلاج لعلاج السحر والمس والعين و الحسد | salee | 11-22-08, 08:16 PM |
كبرى اليقينيات الكونية - وجود الخالق ووظيفة المخلوق | salee | 11-23-08, 07:01 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | مرتضى الكجم | 11-23-08, 07:56 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Hadeer Alzain | 11-23-08, 04:25 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 05:14 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 05:36 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 06:12 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-24-08, 09:52 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 06:29 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Hadeer Alzain | 11-23-08, 07:22 PM |
EGO | salee | 11-24-08, 10:06 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-23-08, 07:24 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-24-08, 10:14 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 07:41 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Hadeer Alzain | 11-23-08, 07:54 PM |
مرحبا بهدير معنا | salee | 11-24-08, 10:17 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-24-08, 02:11 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-24-08, 09:35 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-27-08, 12:45 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Walid Safwat | 11-27-08, 07:18 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-29-08, 09:06 PM |
الأربعين حديثا النووية | salee | 11-29-08, 10:32 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-01-08, 07:11 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-01-08, 07:41 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-03-08, 01:11 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 12-03-08, 01:26 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-04-08, 09:50 AM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:01 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:24 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:31 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:37 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-06-08, 11:01 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 12-06-08, 02:53 PM |
Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | جعفر محي الدين | 12-06-08, 03:36 PM |
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