Very informative and close as possible

"Gone far" After reading Dave Eggers novel, which deals with the same subject, I have read with "They poured Fire on Us From the Sky" is another book about "Lost Boys". It has definitely paid off.

The Benson and Alephonsion brothers and her cousin Benjamin signs in personal, written from the first-person perspective flashbacks how their lives have changed after the start of the civil war in Sudan. They belong to the people of the Dinka, whose villages and settlements were attacked very early in the course of the war, plundered and destroyed. The three boys are lucky - they can escape, but have to make a long and arduous journey, on which not only the opposing army represents a great danger. More than once they are separated from each other. In their stories they tell, how have still managed to in the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya.

Unlike Eggers novel, the story of three boys is reproduced as it is also done in reality. This is sometimes confusing because of multiple changes of perspective and the sometimes very convoluted paths that travel the boys. Above all, it is appalling what happens to them on the way to what Grausmkeiten people are capable - and how many people still retain a high degree of helpfulness, courage and assertiveness. I think the book describes the situation for boys in the Sudan during the Civil War again very good (although that is of course difficult to judge as outsiders).

Overall, a highly recommended book!