The Bitter Side of Sweet

Tara Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
G.P.Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers' (Verlag)
978-0-399-17307-3 (ISBN)

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Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. The higher the number the safer they are because the bosses won't beat them. The higher the number the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home to Baba and Auntie.

Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. This number is very important. The higher the number the safer they are because the bosses won't beat them. The higher the number the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home to Baba and Auntie. Maybe. The problem is Amadou doesn't know how much he and Seydou owe, and the bosses won't tell him. The boys only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family. Instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast; they spend day after day living on little food and harvesting beans in the hot sun-dangerous, backbreaking work. With no hope of escape, all they can do is try their best to stay alive-until Khadija comes into their lives. She's the first girl who's ever come to camp, and she's a wild thing. She fights bravely every day, attempting escape again and again, reminding Amadou what it means to be free. But finally, the bosses break her, and what happens next to the brother he has always tried to protect almost breaks Amadou.
The old impulse to run is suddenly awakened. The three band together as family and try just once more to escape.

Tara Sullivan is the author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed Golden Boy. She was born in India and spent her childhood living in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic with her parents, who were international aid workers. She received a BA in Spanish literature and cognitive science from the University of Virginia, and an MA in Latin American Studies and an MPA in nonprofit management from Indiana University. She currently lives with her family in Massachusetts.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 216 mm
Gewicht	437 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
ISBN-10	0-399-17307-2 / 0399173072
ISBN-13	978-0-399-17307-3 / 9780399173073
Zustand	Neuware