Brahim Abdelgadir’s beautiful country‚ Sudan‚ has become a hard place to live. Much too hard. Just like thousands of other boys‚ Brahim must take to the road and flee. His father‚ too‚ insists that Brahim must leave to escape‚ and tells him that he will find salvation in England.
Brahim encounters every hardship imaginable. The burning desert. The barbarism of Libyan pirates. The hostile and formidable sea. And then‚ Europe. Icy roads‚ police violence‚ a clandestine existence. One winter morning‚ after having walked to the point of exhaustion‚ Brahim enters a small village in the Ardennes region of Belgium and at long last finds someone who considers him a human being and welcomes him.
The reader follows a refugee’s itinerary‚ in this powerful novel‚ told with deeply moving truth. The author’s inspiration were the stories of young refugees whom he lodged while on their journey of exile.

Themes: Refugees / Solidarity / Exile
Ages 14 and older
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