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The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee
Nonfiction

The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee

by Gulwali Passarlay

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Language English
Total Pages 365 pages
ISBN
9781782398479
Description
To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from afghanistan at the age of twelve, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the us army. Smuggled into ir...
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To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from afghanistan at the age of twelve, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the us army. Smuggled into iran, gulwali began a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, making a terrifying journey across the mediterranean in a tiny boat, and enduring a desolate month in the camp at calais.
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