Anna Perera

Guantanamo Boy

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Produktbeschreibung

Khalid, a 15-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: von 12 bis 17 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780141326078
• ISBN-10: 0141326077
• Artikelnr.: 24710431

Autorenporträt

Anna Perera was born in London to an Irish mother and Sri Lankan father. She worked as an English teacher in two secondary schools in London, and later became responsible for a unit for excluded boys. She lives in Hampshire, England. Guantanamo Boy is her first teenage novel.

Rezensionen

This powerful and humane book shows that hatred is never an answer, and proves the pointlessness of torture and the danger of thinking of anyone as 'other.' Nicolette Jones Sunday Times