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6,000 Miles to Freedom: Two Boys and Their Flight from the Taliban

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Availability:In StockContributor:St?phane Marchetti, Hannah Chute, Cyrille Pom?s (Artist)Publish date:2022-05-10Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Mundi - Psu PressISBN-13:9781637790212ISBN-10:163779021XUPC:9781637790212Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Historical Fiction, Emigration & Immigration, LiterarySize:11.72 x 7.62 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.5212Product ID:SCWGC3M3H3
Two boys. One war-torn country. A world away, freedom.

Twelve-year-old Adel and his cousin Shafi try to lead a normalchildhood in war-torn Afghanistan. But when Adel's father dies, everythingchanges. His uncle, a religious fundamentalist, sends Adel to study at a madrasarun by militants, where he is trained as an insurgent and chosen to carry out asuicide bombing. When his moment of martyrdom arrives, Adel's detonatorfails, and he is forced to flee the country or risk being killed by the Afghanpolice or the Taliban themselves.

Together, Adel and Shafi set out toseek refuge in England, where Shafi's brother now lives and where a newlife awaits. With that hope, the two boys begin the perilous journey of 6,000miles to freedom, crossing mountains on foot and squeezing into crowded truckswith other refugees. The two become separated only to find each other again inthe Calais Jungle encampment, their last, hellish stop.

Based on numeroustestimonies from refugee youth, this poignant, timely, and well-documented storybrings to life the traumatic experiences faced by Afghani children fleeing warand poverty, as well as the isolation they often feel as refugees in theWest.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Mundi - Psu PressISBN-13:9781637790212ISBN-10:163779021XUPC:9781637790212Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Historical Fiction, Emigration & Immigration, LiterarySize:11.72 x 7.62 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.5212Product ID:SCWGC3M3H3

Stéphane Marchetti is an author, director, and producer of documentaries. His film Rafah, chroniques d'une ville dans la bande de Gaza won the Albert Londres Prize in 2008. 6,000 Miles to Freedom is based on testimony collected in his 2017 documentary, Les enfants de la jungle.

Cyrille Pomès published his first comic book, À la lettre près, in 2005. Since then, he has collaborated with historian Jean-Pierre Filiu on Le printemps de Arabes and Le dame de Damas and with Isabelle Merlet on the prize-winning Le fils de l'Ursari, based on the novel by Xavier-Laurent Petit.


Publisher: Graphic Mundi - Psu Press

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