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The Girl Who Smiled Beads

The Girl Who Smiled Beads book

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

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A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Clare, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries, searching for safety-perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States, where she embarked on another journey, ultimately graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human, of going hungry and seeing death, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. In The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of 'victim' and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful, and bracingly original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2013-05-06
Publication Date:
2018-04-26
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
05280084121786331470
ISBN13:
9781786331472
Weight:
310 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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