My Lost Childhood

Author : Abraham Deng Ater
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493123017
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Lost Childhood written by Abraham Deng Ater and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Lost Childhood is a memoir describing immeasurable suffering the author went through in his early childhood. In the late 1980s, the Islamic government began to systematically torture and kill Southern Sudanese families, burn their villages, and enslave young boys and girls. As a result, an approximately, as numbers are largely unknown and only an estimate, 27,000 plus boys from Southern tribes were forced to flee from their homes. Traveling naked and barefoot, they sought refuge in neighboring Fugnido, Ethiopia, where a few years later they were forced to flee yet another civil war. Returning to Sudan, the Islamic government forced them to travel for another five months, ultimately arriving in Kakuma, Kenya, after four years of unthinkable hardship and walking over thousands of miles naked, barefoot, and ailing from starvation, dehydration, and diseases. Many boys perished along the way and their numbers shrank into few thousands. Abraham Deng Ater, separated from his family in 1987, is one of approximately 3,800 boys now known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. He left Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after several years of massive suffering and was granted refuge in the U.S. in 2001. Many Lost Boys including Abraham have since become U.S. citizens and have continued to pursue their education. Thousands more have also been granted refuge elsewhere and are scattered around the globe.

Author : Leon Keer
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789401470810
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leon Keer - Distortion written by Leon Keer and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The wonderful 3D world of Leon Keer * This Dutch street artist conquers the world * Keer explains his working method and allows you a glimpse into his creative mind * With a unique 3D cover Leon Keer is the master of optical illusion. The 'Dutch JR' plays with perspectives and creates a whole new world. One in which Snow White is stuck under a door. Or a world in which you unexpectedly enter a seventies living room. This is his first monograph. He allows the reader an exclusive look into his world and imagination. How does he work? And how does a wild idea develop into a gigantic 3D artwork?

Author : Lucjan Krolikowski
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595168639
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stolen Childhood written by Lucjan Krolikowski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-02-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen Childhood is the story of what happened to some 380,000 Polish children who, with their families, were rounded up by Stalin's orders in 1939 and deported into Asiatic Russia. Lucjan Krolikowski, a young seminarian also deported there, shared and witnessed the suffering of his fellow Poles. Freed by an "amnesty," he joined the Polish Army, and when it moved to the Middle East, Lucjan resumed his theology studies, pronounced his vows, and became a chaplain to a Polish military hospital in Egypt. Reassigned to refugee camps in East Africa, Fr. Lucjan and the wandering Polish children met again in 1947 — a meeting that began a long and loving relationship. In 1949 when the Warsaw Communists claimed guardianship of the Polish orphans in Africa and demanded their repatriation, Fr. Lucjan was forced into a world of international intrigue. Called by the Communists "a kidnapper on an international scale," to his orphans, he was the good shepherd who led them to Canada, where he helped his charges overcome the theft of their childhood and become secure adults in a new world. Stolen Childhood is the book of memories he wrote for them, and a cautionary history for people of good will.

Author : Nechama Tec
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195035001
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dry Tears written by Nechama Tec and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a young Jewish girl's coming-of-age during the tragic years of the Holocaust.

Author : Annelex Hofstra Layson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426303210
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Childhood written by Annelex Hofstra Layson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her childhood experiences as a Japanese prisoner during World War II.

Author : Kapil Dev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000264483
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Childhood written by Kapil Dev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India. It presents insights on their life on the streets to provide a comprehensive understanding of why they are driven to extreme means of livelihoods. This volume, · Inquiries into the histories of street children, and discusses their socio-economic and socio-demographic characteristics to provide a sense of their living conditions; · Sheds light on the social injustice experienced by these children, their health and hygiene, and also looks at the insecurities faced by the children in their interactions with the society; · Uses detailed field research data to highlight issues that affect the lives of street children such as education, gender discrimination, and their social networks; · Suggests a way forward that would not only benefit street children but will also be of use to the community in understanding their lives, problems, and help explore this issue in further detail. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of human geography, development studies, child development, urban poverty, and social justice. It will also be of interest to policymakers, social workers, and field workers who work with street children.

Author : Yehuda Nir
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780439163897
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Childhood written by Yehuda Nir and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.

Author : Maksim Gorky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Childhood written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758992
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight written by Alexandra Fuller and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. “This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek “By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yorker Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fuller—known to friends and family as Bobo—grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor’s story. It is the story of one woman’s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt. Praise for Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight “Riveting . . . [full of] humor and compassion.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “The incredible story of an incredible childhood.”—The Providence Journal

Author : Anilava Roy
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1644299356
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Childhood written by Anilava Roy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of our generation, in the age bracket of 40 to 60, are the last of the generation who had a childhood which would never come back. It was simple and had a lot of happiness around small things. It was carefree and adventurous in contrast to today’s generations who will never experience the childhood which we did despite the advancement of technology and the improvement in the standard of living. The small joys in life are no longer there, and even after having everything in life, it does not seem enough. The idea of this book is to bring forth the childhood which many of our generations would be able to relate to and savour. The book also highlights, to today’s generation, as to what they are missing in their childhood. It may bring out some of those aspects in their childhood. This book is not a simple memoir of childhood. It is an attempt to capture the childhood of a child of a middle-class family who travelled through 8 cities, lived in around 10 houses and studied in around 8 schools. It is also about the various incidents, cities and its foods.