Super strong and contemporary!
Sixteen-year-old Ombeni escaped war torn Congo for Sweden. She is the oldest daughter in a big family, and has witnessed horrible violence in her homeland, pictures that are constantly before her eyes. She lives in nor ...
Super strong and contemporary!
Sixteen-year-old Ombeni escaped war torn Congo for Sweden. She is the oldest daughter in a big family, and has witnessed horrible violence in her homeland, pictures that are constantly before her eyes. She lives in northern Sweden, in her own apartment, she goes to high school, and nobody understands what she has gone through – her family is largely annihilated, she doesn’t know if her sisters are still alive. Nights are the worst, every night she dreams about the horrors, about the rapes, about the dead. At the same time, she is petrified that she will forget the faces of her family.
In Congo, more than five and a half million people have died since the war began in 1998. It is the deadliest armed conflict in the world since World War II. Hundred of thousands of women and girls have been raped repeatedly by different armed groups.
A book that should be used in all high schools!
Christina Wahldén has once again written a super strong, horrible and very gripping novel. In her straightforward simple way she describes the reality of many young people. It is impossible not to be moved.
Age: Young adult