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Song for Night
Song for Night
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Part Inferno and part Paradise Lost, Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon.
The reader is led by the voiceless protagonist who, as part of a landmine-clearing platoon, had his vocal chords cut - a move to keep these children from screaming when blown up and thereby distracting the other minesweepers.
The book is written in a ghostly voice, with each chapter headed by a line of the unique sign language these children have invented.
The book is unlike anything else ever written about an African war.
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