In the land of magic soldiers

"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."--Jacket.

First sentence: There is a place where the bend in a path-just that, a slight curve in a narrow strip of mud-can produce an ache, a longing, a bending of the heart.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Picador

Editions

3

Pages

224

ISBN

9780312422929

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