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Radiance of Tomorrow A Novel Ishmael Beah A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, FICTION two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin Sarah Crichton Books | 1/7/2014 to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking 9780374246020 | $25.00 / $30.00 Can. 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He came to the United States when he was Minneapolis; Miami; Austin seventeen and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a UNICEF Ambassador and l National Publicity Advocate for Children Affected by War; a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s l National Advertising Rights Advisory Committee; a visiting scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution l Web Marketing Campaign at Columbia University; a cofounder of the Network of Young People Affected by War l BEA Promotion (NYPAW); and the president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. He has spoken before the United l Reading... Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and many panels on the effects of war on children. He lives in New York. ALSO AVAILABLE A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier PRAISE 8/2008 | 9780374531263 Paperback / softback | $13.00 Praise for A Long Way Gone “Everyone in the world should read this book. 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