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Indlæser... The Mzungu Boy (udgave 2006)af Meja Mwangi
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Publisher's blurb: "For Kariuki, life in a small village in Kenya is one great adventure. The best part of his day is the walk home from school, when he is free from both his bullying headmaster and his mother's long list of chores. The landscape around his village is beautifully wild, and Kariuki knows it well. One day Kariuki meets Nigel, a boy from England who has come to visit his grandfather, the fearsome Bwana Ruin, who owns the farm where the villagers work. The villagers call Nigel the mzungu boy (westerner), and view him with suspicion and fear; but not Kariuki. One day the boys decide to hunt down the meanest warthog in the forest. The hunt takes them deeper into the jungle than Kariuki has ever gone, and all at once his beloved forest becomes a frightening place. Dangerous creatures live in the jungle, including the mau-mau, the men with guns who are plotting against Bwana Ruin and the white soldiers. And when Nigel suddenly disappears, will Kariuki be able to save his friend? In this novel, the author captures a time of innocence, wild beauty, and the growing violence that eventually changed the entire structure of colonial Africa." Set in the 1950s. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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For Kariuki, life in his small Kenyan village is one great adventure. It gets even more interesting when he meets Nigel, an English boy who is visiting his grandfather. Kariuki befriends Nigel even though the rest of the villagers fear him and call him "the mzungu boy." No library descriptions found. |
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Review: An enticing story that brings middle aged readers in by the shear fact that the central message is that friendship does not always make life better. Mwangi tells the readers of the cold, hard truths of life in the tail of two boys traveling through life together. Kariuki got in a lot of trouble because of Nigel such as he ate the fish that Nigel caught even though he [Kariuki] told Nigel that he could not eat the fish. Nigel has no clue at all what is going on in colonial Africa, which is apparent when his great grandfather rounds up the workers into the pen, like animals, and Nigel waves to Kariuki like nothing is wrong and then he [Nigel] gets scolded for waving. It seems to be a lose-lose situation for the two boys and it continuously gets harder throughout the story. Although some may say that this is an inappropriate topic for this age level, I disagree because the boys in the story are young and it is important to learn that friendship has it's downfalls too. ( )