The lightless sky : my journey to safety as a child refugee /
Passarlay, Gulwali,
The lightless sky : my journey to safety as a child refugee / Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri. - London : Atlantic Books, 2016. - 365 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Originally published: 2015.
Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of 12, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US army for hiding Taliban fighters. Smuggled into Iran, Gulwali began a 12 month odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, cruelty, brutality, nearly drowning in a tiny boat on the Mediterranean. Somehow he survived, and made it to Britain, no longer an innocent child but still a boy of 12. Here in Britain he was fostered, sent to a good school, won a place at a top university, and was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. He wants to tell his story - to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men, women and children who risk their lives to leave behind the troubles of their homelands.
9781782398479 (pbk.) : £7.99 No price
Passarlay, Gulwali.
Refugees--Afghanistan.
Refugees--Great Britain.
Biography.
Afghans
The lightless sky : my journey to safety as a child refugee / Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri. - London : Atlantic Books, 2016. - 365 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Originally published: 2015.
Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of 12, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US army for hiding Taliban fighters. Smuggled into Iran, Gulwali began a 12 month odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, cruelty, brutality, nearly drowning in a tiny boat on the Mediterranean. Somehow he survived, and made it to Britain, no longer an innocent child but still a boy of 12. Here in Britain he was fostered, sent to a good school, won a place at a top university, and was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. He wants to tell his story - to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men, women and children who risk their lives to leave behind the troubles of their homelands.
9781782398479 (pbk.) : £7.99 No price
Passarlay, Gulwali.
Refugees--Afghanistan.
Refugees--Great Britain.
Biography.
Afghans
