In the land of magic soldiers
Subtitle: a story of white and Black in West Africa
By: Daniel Bergner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-
Description: "In the Land of Magic Soldiers tells the stories of a group of native Sierra Leoneans: a father who rescues his daughter from rape, loses his hands as punishment, and then begins to rebuild his life; a child soldier (and sometime cannibal) and the priest who tries to help him; and a highly Westernized medical student with an immunity to bullets and a cure for HIV. Interwoven with their stories are those of the would-be saviors: a family of American missionaries who make their home in a tiny village as the war overruns them; a mercenary helicopter gunship pilot who thrives on the fighting he tries to end; and the army of Great Britain, committed to intensive intervention in a country that is so anarchic and desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized."--Jacket.