Amina /

Powers, J. L. 1974-

Amina / J. L. Powers. - Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013. - 183 p. : map ; 20 cm. - Through my eyes .

Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Somalia's brutal ongoing war.

1743312490 9781743312490 :


Children's, Teenage & educational.
20151000


Somalia--History--1991---Fiction.
Somalia--Social conditions--1960---Fiction.

PZ 7 / P888a 2013