The Resource The lightless sky : a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world, Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri
The lightless sky : a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world, Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri
- Summary
- In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans who wanted to use him. To protect her son, Gulwali's mother sent him away. The search for safety would lead the twelve-year-old across eight countries, from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan through Iran and Europe to Britain. Over the course of twelve harrowing months, Gulwali endured imprisonment, hunger, cruelty, brutality, loneliness, and terror and nearly drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea before being granted asylum in England. In The Lightless Sky, Gulwali recalls his experience and offers a firsthand look at pressing issues of the modern refugee crisis
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 361 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780062443878
- Link
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- Label
- The lightless sky : a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world
- Title
- The lightless sky
- Title remainder
- a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans who wanted to use him. To protect her son, Gulwali's mother sent him away. The search for safety would lead the twelve-year-old across eight countries, from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan through Iran and Europe to Britain. Over the course of twelve harrowing months, Gulwali endured imprisonment, hunger, cruelty, brutality, loneliness, and terror and nearly drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea before being granted asylum in England. In The Lightless Sky, Gulwali recalls his experience and offers a firsthand look at pressing issues of the modern refugee crisis
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- Title
- The lightless sky
- Summary
- Documents the author's traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West at the age of 12, describing how he escaped from Taliban recruiters that killed his father, his journey over mountains through eight countries and his endurance against hunger, brutality and imprisonment
- Subject
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- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 2001-
- Refugees
- Escapes
- Afghans in Great Britain
- Child refugees
- Fathers -- Death
- Life stories -- Facing adversity | War and oppression | Refugees
- Survival
- Immigration and emigration
- Refugees, Afghan
- Adult books for young adults
- Violence
- History writing -- Wars and conflicts | War in Afghanistan
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Biography type
- autobiography
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- 10470276
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 958.104/71
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV640.5.A28
- LC item number
- P37 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Label
- The lightless sky : a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world, Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri
- Link
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- Related Authorities
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- Wars and conflicts
- Passarlay, Gulwali
- Biographies
- War in Afghanistan
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Political refugees
- Death
- Biography
- Cultural Heritage
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Refugees
- Adult books for young adults
- Facing adversity
- Refugees, Afghan
- Personal Memoirs
- Survival
- 2001-
- Violence
- Afghans in Great Britain
- War and oppression
- Fathers
- Escapes
- History writing
- Child refugees
- Life stories
- Immigration and emigration
- Afghanistan
- Related Subjects
-
- Political refugees -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 2001-
- Refugees
- Escapes
- Afghans in Great Britain
- Child refugees
- Fathers -- Death
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage
- Life stories -- Facing adversity | War and oppression | Refugees
- Passarlay, Gulwali
- Survival
- Immigration and emigration
- Refugees, Afghan
- Biographies
- Adult books for young adults
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Violence
- History writing -- Wars and conflicts | War in Afghanistan
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Autobiographies
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- Dimensions
- 24 cm
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 361 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780062443878
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015042841
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- maps, color illustrations
- System control number
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- ocn931476560
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Subject
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Biographies
- Passarlay, Gulwali
- Political refugees -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Taliban
- Adult books for young adults
- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 2001-
- Afghans in Great Britain
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Child refugees
- Escapes
- Fathers -- Death
- History writing -- Wars and conflicts | War in Afghanistan
- Immigration and emigration
- Life stories -- Facing adversity | War and oppression | Refugees
- Refugees
- Refugees, Afghan
- Survival
- Violence
Genre
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Adult books for young adults
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- History writing
- Life stories
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