Мариату Камара — новинки

Мариату счастливо жила в кругу семьи, друзей и подружек в маленькой деревушке в Западной Африке. Но потом в Сьерра-Леоне пришла гражданская война. Вооруженные до зубов отряды мятежников нападали на мирные поселения, устраивая бессмысленный террор. Во время одного из таких налетов двенадцатилетней девочке отрубили кисти обеих рук, - и сделали это юные бойцы не старше ее самой, одурманенные вседозволенностью и лживыми посулами продажных лидеров. Убегая от повстанцев через лес, в полубреду от боли, Мариату истекала кровью. Но сладкий Вкус манго - первой еды после нападения, которой угостил девочку случайный встречный, - возродил в ней желание…

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango, her first food after the attack, reaffirmed her desire to live, but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and living in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. As told to her by Mariatu, journalist Susan McClelland has written the heartbreaking true story of the brutal attack, its aftermath and Mariatu’s eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage, astonishing resilience and hope.