Memory of departure
Essais et documents généraux
Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
Portrait of a young man's coming of age. The initial setting of the family's poverty-stricken existence, a small port city on the coast of East Africa, encompasses scenes of abuse and brutality as teenager Hassan tries to deal with his… hopes for an education, his drunken father, and his own emerging sense of self. Traveling to visit his successful uncle in Nairobi, Kenya, Hassan enters a whole new world and finds himself caught in yet another conflict. Strong language and some descriptions of sex