Little brother : a refugee's odyssey

Author

Ibrahima Balde

Call Number

• FICTION BALD (CEN)

Edition

First North American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Arcade Publishing, [2021]

Physical Description

xiv, 138 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the eldest son he must leave their home village in the Guinean countryside in search of work to support his family. Eventually apprenticed to a trucker in the capital, he learns that his younger brother has dropped out of school and fled to Libya to pursue the dream of finding work in Europe. Leaving behind everything, Ibrahima sets off with the aim to convince his little brother to return home and complete his education. His journey, full of hardships and sometimes on foot, takes Ibrahima north to Mali and across the Sahara Desert to the refugee camps of North Africa--to Algeria, Libya, and then back west to Morocco. Stopping along the way to recover physically or earn money, he encounters untold cruelties as well as kindness. Based on his true-life story told to a traditional bard from the Basque Country and retold here, Little Brother is a deeply moving, eye-opening novel that gives voice and a face to the refugee crisis, illuminating the plight of migrants from many lands."

Notes

Autobiographical fiction.

First published in Basque as Miñan by Susa in 2019.