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Radiance of tomorrow

"In the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone, a village comes together to regain the beauty of life as it was in the past"-- Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Villages > Sierra Leone > Fiction. Sierra Leone > History > Civil War, 1991-2002 > Fiction.
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Summary:	"In the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone, a village comes together to regain the beauty of life as it was in the past"-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	ix, 242 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780374246020 (hardback) 0374246025 (hardback)
Author Notes:	Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He came to the United States when he was seventeen and studied political science at Oberlin College, graduating in 2004. His first book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier , was a number-one New York Times bestseller and has been published in more than forty languages. Time magazine named it one of their Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007. Beah is a UNICEF Ambassador and Advocate for Children Affected by War; a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Advisory Committee; an advisory board member of the Center for the Study of Youth & Political Violence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; a former visiting scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University; a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; cofounder of the Network of Young People Affected by War (NYPAW); and president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. He has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and many panels on the effects of war on children. He is based in New York with his wife and child.