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Rated: 9 times. Average rating 4.11
Description
Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in America, where he is haunted by his past and the memory of a charismatic leader's devastating sacrifice. 35,000 first printing.
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