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by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Book Overview

Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too--arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbi's son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253006899
• ISBN13: 9780253006899
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher