Bibliograph

A long walk to water, a novel

Type

Label

A long walk to water, a novel

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A long walk to water

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a novel

Summary

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way

Target audience

juvenile

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