Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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A haunting, beautiful first novel by the best-selling author of A Long Way Gone. When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of best-seller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should listen to". (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called, "arguably the most listened-to African writer in contemporary literature", has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone.
At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike.
With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful audiobook about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 7, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HDON6YI
"Radiance of Tomorrow" by Ishmael Beah is new well-made novel from African writer who tells a story about hope and courage, about consequences of the war-ravaged Sierra Leone, observed through the fate of two best friends who return to their hometown.
After the civil war in Sierra Leone was over, Benjamin and Bockarie together with other people are coming back to Imperi, their birth place in ruins. Both are teachers so their desire by resuming the old post is to help rebuild their country and their community with knowledge and education.
But even though the war have ended, the country is in ruins, and the problems are all around them - lack of food, vengeance, murders, rape and theft are part of everyday painful life that surrounds them. Additionally, under the guise of helping troubled African country and its people, a foreign company jeopardizes their survival polluting water which will again cause unrest amnog people.
So the two friends besides thinking about the safety of their lives, and due to will to help people around them and hold fragile peace would need to put themselves in the position to fix what is today so the things that will come could be better, bringing hope for a better tomorrow...
Ishmael Beah wrote a strong book that goes beyond terms such as courage and hope; he brought a compelling and moving story about the consequences of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, and his story is even more distressing because it's told by the local people that understand why and what happened, something that is most of the time hard to understand for people that are not from these troubled world parts.
In the author's note to Radiance of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah asks, how do you return home after the destruction of war? How do you once again make it your home? How do you live there with your family and neighbors and continue traditions of the past, as well as strive for a meaningful future? And in the novel that follows, Beah responses to those questions by creating a story about one village in Sierra Leone whose citizens try to rebuild their lives after a long civil war. It is a wonderful story, so simply told, with such sympathetic characters and such rich imagery that it will be certain to move you.
In the village of Imperi we meet the elders who return first, Mama Kadie and Papa Moiwa, who are quickly followed by others, among them: Sila and his children, who have had their hands cut off during the war, the mysterious Colonel with his group of child soldiers, and a teacher, Bockarie and his wife Kula, who with their children have miraculously survived the war with the family intact. We follow the villagers as they rebuild their lives, only to have their efforts compromised by a rutile (or is it really diamond?) mining operation that brings jobs and corruption to their community. Throughout the novel their stories are told with loving detail, unflinching honesty, and gentle humor. And the language! With simplicity of sentence and unassuming word choice, Beah's imagery is nevertheless beautiful. I recall one particularly lovely description of the capital city, Freetown, where Bockarie and his family are forced to move. After the light provided by generators has dimmed, "the stars and moon came out later and won over the darkness.
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