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In the land of magic soldiers : a story of white and black in West Africa / Daniel Bergner.
- Title
- In the land of magic soldiers : a story of white and black in West Africa / Daniel Bergner.
- Author
- Bergner, Daniel.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DT516.826 .B47 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 216 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In the Land of Magic Soldiers tells the stories of a group of native Sierra Leoneans: a father who rescues his daughter from rape, loses his hands as punishment, and then begins to rebuild his life; a child soldier (and sometime cannibal) and the priest who tries to help him; and a highly Westernized medical student with an immunity to bullets and a cure for HIV. Interwoven with their stories are those of the would-be saviors: a family of American missionaries who make their home in a tiny village as the war overruns them; a mercenary helicopter gunship pilot who thrives on the fighting he tries to end; and the army of Great Britain, committed to intensive intervention in a country that is so anarchic and desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 0374266530 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003044065
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries